Small screens : essays on contemporary Australian television / edited by Michelle Arrow, Jeannine Baker, and Clare Monagle.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Arrow, Michelle, editor.

Baker, Jeannine, editor.

Monagle, Clare, editor.

Series:

Cultural studies.

Cultural studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Television.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (210 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Clayton, Victoria : Monash University Publishing, [2016]

Summary:

There has been a lot happening on Australia's small screens. Neighbours turned 30. Struggle Street was accused of poverty porn. Pete evangelised Paleo. Gina got litigious. Netflix muscled in. The Bachelor spawned The Bachelorette. Peter Allen's maraccas were exhumed. The Labor Party ate itself. Anzac was an anti-climax. And so much more... Join us as we survey the Australian televisual landscape, and try to make sense of the myriad changes transforming what and how we watch. We've come a long way since Bruce Gyngell welcomed us to television in 1956. We now watch on demand and wherever we want, in our lounge rooms and on our devices. But some things stay the same. The small screen is still a place for imagining Australia, for better or for worse. Small Screens challenges and celebrates our contemporary TV worlds.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright and Imprint Information

Contents

Introduction

1. The Televisual Landscape Today

2. A Bitter Pill to Swallow: Food on Australian TV

3. Broadcasting Disruption

4. Anzac on TV

5. Take One Sip When Someone Says 'Connection': Passion versus Intimacy in The Bachelor/ette Austra

6. 'Gaps in the National Family Album': Australian Documentaries on the ABC and SBS

7. Neighbours, the Soap that Whitens: 30 Years of Ramsay Street

8. Not the Boy Next Door: Reconsidering Television in the Musical Miniseries

9. I Am Woman, Redux: Feminism on Television in 2015

10. Mining for Drama: House of Hancock, Gina Rinehart and the Law

11. Dramatising Australia's Colonisation: White Men's Stories in Banished and The Secret River

12. Struggle Street … Poverty Porn?

About the Contributors

Back Cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781925377408

1925377407

9781925377118

1925377113