Television drama : agency, audience, and myth /
"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."--Publisher description
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
1990.
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| Series: | Studies in culture and communication.
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Table of Contents:
- pt. 1: Popular TV drama: ideology and myth
- 'Soft' news: the space of TV drama
- Genre and myth: 'a half-formed picture'
- pt. 2: 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'
- pt. 3: Reading drama: audience use, exchange and play
- 'Use and exchange': delivering audiences
- Sub-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.