Television drama : agency, audience, and myth / John Tulloch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tulloch, John.

Series:

Studies in communication.

Studies in communication

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Television plays--History and criticism.

Television plays.

Television broadcasting.

Television viewers.

Popular culture.

Communication.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London [England] ; New York : Routledge, 1990.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Views television drama from a cultural studies perspective, examining the active agency of both viewers and media practitioners. Tulloch looks at genres such as soap opera, science fiction, sitcoms and police series.

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword by Trevor Griffiths; General editor's preface; Introduction: theories of myth, agency and audience; Popular TV drama: ideology and myth; 'Soft' news: the space of TV drama; Genre and myth: 'a half-formed picture'; Authored drama: agency as 'strategic penetration'; 'Reperceiving the world': making history; 'Serious drama': the dangerous mesh of empathy; TV drama as social event: text and inter-text; Authored drama: 'not just naturalism'; Industry/performance: drama as 'strategic penetration'; Reading drama: audience use, exchange and play

'Use and exchange': delivering audiencesSub-culture and reading formation: regimes of watching; Conclusion: comedies of 'myth' and 'resistance'; Comic order and disorder: residual and emergent cultures; 'Marauding behaviour': parody, carnival and the grotesque; Notes; Bibliography; Indexes

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-134-97961-4

0-203-32966-X

1-280-32652-2

1-134-97962-2

0-203-18800-4

9780203188002

OCLC:

60503454