1st Edition
Australian Television Programs, pleasures and politics
Edited By John Tulloch
Copyright 1989
220 Pages
by
Routledge
220 Pages
by
Routledge
220 Pages
by
Routledge
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Media, communications and cultural studies form a rapidly growing part of secondary and tertiary education in Australia, yet there have been few books dealing specifically with Australian television. This is the first wide ranging study of television in Australia, and includes a coverage of the cultural and institutional history of Australian television as well as examining a wide range of... Read more
General Editor's Preface
Preface
Contributors
1 Three stages of Australian television
2 The converging of film and television
3 Transgressive TV: From In Melbourne Tonight to Perfect Match
4 Textual innovation in the Australian historical mini-series
5 In praise of Prisoner
6 Everyday quizzes, everyday life
7 Television documentary
8 Publicising progress: science on Australian television
9 Soaps and ads: flow and segmentation
10 Continuous pleasures in marginal places: TV, continuity and the construction of communities
11 Children and television
12 Changed times, changed tunes: music and the ideology of the news
13: Afterword: approaching audiences - a note on method
Index
Preface
Contributors
1 Three stages of Australian television
2 The converging of film and television
3 Transgressive TV: From In Melbourne Tonight to Perfect Match
4 Textual innovation in the Australian historical mini-series
5 In praise of Prisoner
6 Everyday quizzes, everyday life
7 Television documentary
8 Publicising progress: science on Australian television
9 Soaps and ads: flow and segmentation
10 Continuous pleasures in marginal places: TV, continuity and the construction of communities
11 Children and television
12 Changed times, changed tunes: music and the ideology of the news
13: Afterword: approaching audiences - a note on method
Index
Biography
JOHN TULLOCH and GRAEME TURNER are two of Australia's leading writers, researchers and teachers in the field of media and cultural studies. JOHN TULLOCH is Associate Professor in Mass Communications at Macquarie University and his books include Legends and Australian Cinema: Industry, Narrative and Meaning. GRAEME TURNER is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at Queensland Institute of Technology and he is the author of National Fictions and co-author of Myths of Oz.
