Dissident voices : the politics of television and cultural change / edited by Mike Wayne.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wayne, Mike.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Television broadcasting--Social aspects--Great Britain.

Television broadcasting.

Physical Description:

viii, 187 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, c1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A lively exploration of the cracks and fissures in mainstream TV media which allow 'dissident' voices to find expression - and to articulate critical perspectives.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Notes

1. 'Reality or Nothing'? Dennis Potter's Cold Lazarus (1996)

2. Counter-Hegemonic Strategies in Between the Lines

Hegemony, Ubermensch, and Gramsci

The Context and Process of Production

Narrative and the Concept of 'the Hero'

Conclusion

3. Crisis and Opportunity: Class, Gender and Allegory in The Grand

Realism: Some Earlier Debates

Allegory

Structure and Typology in The Grand

The Individual and Society

4. Bare Necessities and Naked Luxuries: The 1990s Male as Erotic Object

5. 'The Fierce Light': The Royal Romance with Television

6. 'Progressive' Television Documentary and Northern Ireland - The Films of Michael Grigsby in a 'Postcolonial' Context

The Trouble With 'Progressiveness'

Putting Method in Perspective

Victims and Villains

Speaking up for Others

7. The Exquisite Corpse of Rab(Elais) C(opernicus) Nesbitt

In the Beginning was the Word . . .

Is There Such a Thing as Scottish Screen Acting?

Where Extremes Meet

Glasgow's Miles Better

Class and Nation in Rab C Nesbitt

A Structuring Absence?

8. The Politics of Ridicule: Satire and Television

What is it and How Does it Work? satire

A Question of Balance

. . . it's Not Going to Bring Down the Government, is it?

Jeremy Hardy

Mark Steel

Mark Thomas

New Labour, New Satire?

9. Not a Lot of Laughs: Documentary and Public Service

10. Dissidence and Authenticity in Dyke Porn and Actuality TV

11. Downloading the Documentary

Index

Adorno, Theodor, 26

Althusser, Louis, 122

american TV 147-8

Anderson, Benedict 87

Bare Necessities, The 5

Barker, Martin 23

Barthes, Roland

45.

122

Baudrillard, Jean 86-7

Baywatch 60

Benjamin, Walter 6

Between The Lines

4

33-9

Beverly Hills 90210

Bill, The 36

Billig, Michael 102

Bird, John 128

Black and Blue 4

Blackadder 8

Bladerunner 13

Blair, Tony 13

Brass Eye 127

Brecht, Bertold 41-3

Bremner, Rory

128

132-3

British Broadcasting Corporation

3

12-13

Broomfield, Nick 146

Brunt, Rosalind 73

Bryden, Bill 110-11

Cahiers du Cinema 109-10

capitalism 2

Carroll, Noel 153

Cassidy, Seamus 128

Catholic 98-9

Cathy Come Home 22

Channel Four 3

class 17

Cold Lazarus 3

Corner, John 94

Country 45

Coward, Ros 75

Cracker 4

Craig, Cairns 107

Crisell, Andrew 78

Curtis, Liz 92

Days of Hope 41

Death of A Nation 151

Death On The Rock 135

Derrida, Jacques 171-2

documentary

9-11

145-58

Drew, Robert 157

Drifters 96

Eagleton, Terry 53

Eastenders 42

Eisenstein, Sergei 96

Ellis, John 75

Empire 18

Ethnicity 32

Eurotrash 163

Falk, Pasi 160

Family, The 149

Fanon, Franz 7

Fiske, John 93

form 17

Fortune, John 128-29

Foucault, Michel 52

Four Weddings and a Funeral 112

Freud, Sigmund 162

Full Monty, The 5

Garnett, Tony 23

gender

32-3

[and sexuality] 50-7

[and sexuality] 58-71

genre 23-4

Glasgow

108

116-18

God's Gift 63-5

Grade, Michael 3

Graef, Roger 149

Gramsci, Antonio

11

116

Grand, The 5

Gray, Alasdair 117

Grierson, John

96-7

148

Griffiths, Trevor 45

Grigsby, Michael 7

Hall, Stuart 101-2

Hardy, Jeremy

130

143

Hartley, John 93

Have I Got News For You

127

132

Hill Street Blues 34

Hislop, Ian 128

Hobsbawm, Eric 19.

Hoggart, Richard 17-18

Hollywood 49

Homicide 34

Hood, Stuart 135

Hurd, Geoffrey 31

Hutton, Will 57

identity [national]

7

45-6

Ideology 44

Independent Television Commission 28

Independent Television [ITV]

40

Internet 163

It's a Royal Knockout 6

Jameson, Fredric 16

Jenkin, Guy 136-7

Jennings, Humphrey

96

150

jouissance 9

Karaoke 13

Kelman, James 108-9

Kern, Richard 159

Kilborn, Richard 146-7

Labour Party 7

Lacan, Jacques 44

Laing, Stuart 29

Laplanche, Jean 162

Leacock, Richard 157

Lenin, V.I. 46

Lifesavers 160

Lipstick On Your Collar 12

Listen To Britain 96

Living On The Edge 97

London 33-4

Long Johns, The 130

Lovell, Alan 96

Lukacs, Georg

5

56

MacCabe, Colin 41

Major, John 127

Man Alive 150

Man O' Man 63-6

Marr, Andrew 141-2

Martin, Troy Kennedy 23

Marxism 24-5

McArthur, Colin 41

McGrath, John 23

McIlvanney, William 115

McNaughton, Adam 110

Midnight Movie 12

Miller, David 92

Modern Times 60

modernism 41-2

monarchy 2

Moore, Michael 144

Moore, Suzanne 25-6

Morgan, Edwin 115-16

Morley, David 102

Morris, Chris 135

Mulvey, Laura 67

Munro, David 150

Murdoch, Rupert

13-14

177

Naked Television 120

Naked Video 124

Naremore, James 111

naturalism 42

Negroponte, Nicholas 176

Newman, G.F. 23

Nichols, Bill 145

Nietzsche 49-50

Northern Ireland

124

NYPD Blue 34

Obscene Publications Act 163

Omnibus 6

One Foot In The Grave 8

Panorama 6

Pattison, Ian 116

People's Century, A 154

Pilger, John 150

Plowman, Jon

129-30

135-6

Police, Camera, Action! 10

pornography 9

Postman, Neil 14

postmodernism

168

Potter, Dennis 3-4

Prime Suspect 4.

Prince Charles 2

Princess Diana 6

Public Service television

19

Punky Girls 163-75

Queen Elizabeth II 72

Rab C. Nesbitt 2

Real Holiday Show, The 167-8

realism 44-6

Reid, Jimmy 111

Reith, John 152

Root, Anthony 47-8

Rory Bremner, Who Else?

Rushdie, Salman 4

Ryall, Tom 24

Said, Edward 7

Satanic Verses, The 4

satire 8

Scannell, Paddy 74

Scotland 7-8

Shohat, Ella 105

Silent War, The 98-101

Silverman, Kaja 172

Singing Detective, The 15

Soros, George 2

Spitting Image 83

Star Wars 13

Steel, Mark 140

Stop, Police! 159

Strasberg, Lee 112-13

Straw, Jack 25-6

Sweeney, The 31

Teletubbies 2

Televising Terrorism 93-4

That Was The Week That Was

Thatcher, Margaret 15

Thatcherism

1-2

45

This Life. 42

Thoi Noi 102

Thomas, Mark

133

144

Time of Our Lives, The 95-7

Too Long A Sacrifice 98

Trainspotting 112

unconscious [the] 10

Undercurrents 10

video 159-75

Video Diaries 167

Video Nation 151

Watson, Paul 149

Williams, Linda 164

Williams, Raymond 19

Wilsher, John 23

Winston, Brian 98

Wood, Anthony 46

World In Action 155

X-Cars 159

X-Files 60

Yentob, Alan 3

You've Been Framed!

9

160

Young Mr Lincoln 122

Z-Cars 29.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781849645126

1849645124

9780585426648

0585426643

OCLC:

923330433