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Social issues in television fiction / Lesley Henderson.
LIBRA PN1992.6 .H46 2007
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Henderson, Lesley.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Television plays--Themes, motives.
- Television plays.
- Television viewers--Attitudes.
- Television viewers.
- Television--Social aspects.
- Television.
- Social problems in mass media.
- Themes, motives.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 200 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2007.
- Contents:
- Pt. 1. Mapping the field. Television fiction in context: education and entertainment
- pt. 2. Inside the industry. Making 'good' television: creative philosophies, professionalism and production values
- pt. 3. Struggles over television production. General introduction
- Family secrets: sexual violence
- A woman's disease: breast cancer
- Casting the outsiders: mental distress
- Social issues, production and genre
- pt. 4. Social issues and television audiences. Public understandings, sexual violence and safe spaces
- pt. 5. Television fiction and public knowledge. Conclusions
- Appendix: Focus group session participants.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780748625314
- 0748625313
- 0748625321
- 9780748625321
- OCLC:
- 84996986
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