Social issues in television fiction [Elektronisk resurs] / Lesley Henderson.

• COPYRIGHT; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; Part I Mapping the Field; CHAPTER 1 Television Fiction in Context: Education and Entertainment; Part II Inside the Industry; CHAPTER 2 Making ‘Good’ Television: Creative Philosophies, Professionalism and Production Values; Part III Struggles over Television Production; General Introduction; CHAPTER 3 Family Secrets: Sexual Violence; A Woman’s Disease: Breast Cancer; CHAPTER 5 Casting the Outsiders: Mental Distress; CHAPTER 6 Social Issues, Production and Genre; Part IV Social Issues and Television Audiences. 
• CHAPTER 7 Public Understandings, Sexual Violence and Safe SpacesPart V Television Fiction and Public Knowledge; CHAPTER 8 Conclusions; Appendix: Focus Group Session Participants; References; Index. 

• Why are some controversial issues covered in TV soaps and dramas and not others? How are decisions really made ?behind the scenes?? How do programme makers push boundaries without losing viewers? What do audiences take away from their viewing experience? Does TV fiction have a greater impact on public understandings than TV news? This exciting new book draws on unique empirical data to examine the relationship between popular television fiction and wider society. The book gives lively and engaging insights into how and why socially sensitive story lines were taken up by different TV programmes 

Ämnesord

Tv-serier  (sao)

Tv-teater  (sao)

Sociala frågor på tv  (sao)

Social problems in mass media.  (LCSH)

Television plays  -- Themes, motives. (LCSH)

Television viewers  -- Attitudes. (LCSH)

Television  -- Social aspects. (LCSH)

Television programs. 

Television serials  (LCSH)

Television plays  (LCSH)

Genre

Electronic books.  (LCSH)

Klassifikation

PN1992.55 .H46 2007eb (LCC)

302.2345 (DDC)

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