Remembering British Television

Author : Kristyn Gorton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1844576639
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Remembering British Television written by Kristyn Gorton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-21 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This original book asks how, in an age of convergence, when 'television' no longer means a box in the corner of the living room that we sit and watch together, do we remember television of the past? How do we gather and archive our memories? Kristyn Gordon and Joanne Garde-Hansen explore these questions through first person interviews with tv producers, curators and archivists, and case studies of popular television series and fan communities such as 'Cold Feet' and 'Doctor Who'. Their discussion takes in museum exhibitions, popular televison nostalgia programming and 'vintage' tv websites.

Author : Kristyn Gorton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1911239058
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Remembering British Television written by Kristyn Gorton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-21 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This original book asks how, in an age of convergence, when 'television' no longer means a box in the corner of the living room that we sit and watch together, do we remember television of the past? How do we gather and archive our memories? Kristyn Gordon and Joanne Garde-Hansen explore these questions through first person interviews with tv producers, curators and archivists, and case studies of popular television series and fan communities such as 'Cold Feet' and 'Doctor Who'. Their discussion takes in museum exhibitions, popular televison nostalgia programming and 'vintage' tv websites.

Author : Dillon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780719099854
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History on British Television written by Dillon and published by . This book was released on 2015-01-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique and overdue insight and study into how the landscape, institutions and collective memory has influenced the representation of the past on British television from 1946 to the present day, promoting a very singular view of what it means to be British.

Author : A. Holdsworth
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230347975
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Television, Memory and Nostalgia written by A. Holdsworth and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-08-26 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative and original new study, Television, Memory and Nostalgia re-imagines the relationship between the medium and its forms of memory and remembrance through a series of case studies of British and North American programmes and practices. These include ER , Grey's Anatomy , The Wire , Who Do You Think You Are? , and Life on Mars .

Author : Tony Currie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781903053171
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Concise History of British Television, 1930-2000 written by Tony Currie and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Carlen Lavigne
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739146742
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Remakes of British Television written by Carlen Lavigne and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2011-03-31 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since Norman Lear remade the BBC series Till Death Us Do Part into All in the Family, American remakes of British television shows have become part of the American cultural fabric. Indeed, some of the programs currently said to exemplify American tastes and attitudes, from reality programs like American Idol and What Not to Wear to the mock-documentary approach of The Office, are adaptations of successful British shows. Carlen Lavigne and Heather Marcovitch's American Remakes of British Television: Transformations and Mistranslations is a multidisciplinary collection of essays that focuses on questions raised when a foreign show is adapted for the American market. What does it mean to remake a television program? What does the process of 'Americanization' entail? What might the success or failure of a remade series tell us about the differences between American and British producers and audiences? This volume examines British-to-American television remakes from 1971 to the present. The American remakes in this volume do not share a common genre, format, or even level of critical or popular acclaim. What these programs do have in common, however, is the sense that something in the original has been significantly changed in order to make the program appealing or accessible to American audiences. The contributors display a multitude of perspectives in their essays. British-to-American television remakes as a whole are explained in terms of the market forces and international trade that make these productions financially desirable. Sanford and Son is examined in terms of race and class issues. Essays on Life on Mars and Doctor Who stress television's role in shaping collective cultural memories. An essay on Queer as Folk explores the romance genre and also talks about differences in national sexual politics. An examination of The Office discusses how the American remake actually endorses the bureaucracy that the British original satirizes; alternatively, another approach breaks down The Office's bumbling boss figures in terms of contemporary psychological theory. An essay on What Not to Wear discusses how a reality show about everyday fashion conceals the construction of an ideal national subject; a second essay explains the show in terms of each country's discourses surrounding femininity. The success of American Idol is explained by analyzing the role of amateur music in American culture. The issue of translation itself is interrogated by examining specific episodes of Cracker, and also by asking why a successful series in the U.K., Blackpool, was a dismal failure as an American remake. This collection provides a rich and multifaceted overview of approaches to international television studies.

Author : Ann Gray
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415580382
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History on Television written by Ann Gray and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary study of history programming identifies and examines different genres employed by producers and tracks their commissioning, production, marketing and distribution histories. With comparative references to other European nations and North America, the authors focus on British history programming over the last two decades and analyse the relationship between the academy and media professionals. They outline and discuss often-competing discourses about how to 'do' history and the underlying assumptions about who watches history programmes. History on Television considers recent changes in the media landscape, which have affected to a great degree how history in general, and whose history in particular, appears onscreen.

Author : Jane Harbord
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780752210308
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 40 Years of British Television written by Jane Harbord and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of facts and insights into British television programmes since 1955. It includes ratings for each year, and recalls the first nights of top shows (both triumphs and disasters) and stories that made the headlines. There are also brain-teasers to test readers' knowledge and memory.

Author : Kate Darian-Smith
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443845752
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Remembering Television written by Kate Darian-Smith and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-16 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This path-breaking book extends our knowledge of the social and cultural impacts of television, asking new questions about the ways television’s technologies and programming have been experienced, understood and remembered. Television has served as a companion to the historical events that have unfolded in our everyday lives both on and off the screen, and its presence is intricately bound up in our memories of the past and actions in the present. As this volume demonstrates, the influence of television over individual and family behaviours, national identity and ideas of global citizenship is complex and wide-ranging. Drawing upon recent developments in memory studies, history, media and cultural studies, and with particular reference to Australia, leading scholars explore the histories of television, and how its programs and personalities have been celebrated, recalled with nostalgia or simply forgotten. Topics covered include the pre-figuring of television; memories of the struggle for transmission in remote locations; the transnational experience of television for immigrant communities; the evocation of television programs through spin-off products; televised war reportage and censorship; and the value of ‘unofficial’ television archives such as YouTube. As a whole, these essays offer a striking and original examination of the connections between history, memory and television in today’s world.

Author : John Corner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Popular Television in Britain written by John Corner and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Marketing Blurb