Australian television : programs, pleasures and politics
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Australian television : programs, pleasures and politics
（Australian cultural studies）
Allen & Unwin, 1989
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Includes bibliographical notes and index
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Description
This is the first collection of scholarly articles to be published specifically on Australian television. Although media studies are part of the curriculum in Australia, there are still few books which deal specifically with Australian television. It applies the benefits of contemporary developments in media and cultural studies to the analysis of Australian television, covering a wide range of programming and theoretical issues. The contributors to ***Australian Television*** include some of the leading researchers in Australian television and cultural studies and their articles employ a wide range of methods -- from semiotic analyses to cultural histories. Despite their dealings with often quite sophisticated problems, the chapters are written in an accessible and lively manner. This is an important collection which opens out space for more informed and challenging discussions of Australia's television culture -- its programmes, its meanings, its pleasures and its politics. It will be an invaluable text for courses in communication studies, cultural studies and Australian studies.
John Tulloch is Associate Professor in Mass Communications at Macquarie University; Graeme Turner is a senior lecturer in the School of Communication at Queensland Institute of Technology. The contributors include some of the leading researchers in Australian television and cultural studies. Contributors: Alber Moran, Tom O'Regan, Graeme Turner, Stuart Cunningham, Ann Curthoys, John Docker, John Fiske, Dugald Williamson, Philip Bell, Kathe Boehinger, John Tulloch, John Hartley, Bob Hodge, Theo van Leeuwen. This book is intended for students and researchers in communication and cultural studies.
Table of Contents
- CONTENTS: Three stages of Australian television Albert Moran
- The converging of film and television Tom O'Regan
- Trangressive TV: from ***In Melbourne Tonight*** to ***Perfect Match*** Graeme Turner
- Textual innovation in the Australian historical mini-series Stuart Cunningham
- In Praise of ***Prisoner Ann Curthoys & John Docker
- Everyday quizzes, everyday life John Fiske
- Television documentary Dugald Williamson
- Publicising progress: science on Australian television Philip Bell & Kathe Boehringer
- Soaps and ads: flow and segmentation John Tulloch
- Continuous pleasures in marginal places: TV, continuity and the construction of communities John Hartley
- Children and television Bob Hodge
- Changed times, changed tunes: music and the ideology of the news Theo van Leeuwen
- Afterword: approaching audiences - a note on method John Tulloch
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