Provocative Screens - Offended Audiences in Britain and Germany

This book offers a nuanced understanding of 'offensive' television content by drawing on an extensive research project, involving in-depth interviews and focus groups with audiences in Britain and Germany. Provocative Screens asks: what makes something really offensive and to whom in what context? Why it offence felt so differently? And how does offensive content matter in public life, regulation, and institutional understandings?

List of contents

Chapter 1: The Slippery Terrain of Offensive Television.- Chapter 2: Producing the Imagined Audience of Offensive Screens.- Chapter 3: Just Kidding! Negotiating the Line between Humour and Offence.- Chapter 4: Audiences Speak Back: Re-Working Offensive Texts.- Chapter 5: Audiences' Expectations of Regulators and Producers.- Chapter 6: Provocative Screens.

About the author

Ranjana Das is Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication at the University of Surrey, UK.

Anne Graefer is Lecturer in Media Theory at Birmingham City University, UK.

Summary

This book offers a nuanced understanding of ‘offensive’ television content by drawing on an extensive research project, involving in-depth interviews and focus groups with audiences in Britain and Germany. Provocative Screens asks: what makes something really offensive and to whom in what context? Why it offence felt so differently? And how does offensive content matter in public life, regulation, and institutional understandings?

Product details

• Authors: Ranjan Das, Ranjana Das, Anne Graefer
• Assisted by: Ranjan Das (Editor), Ranjana Das (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2017
• EAN: 9783319679068
• ISBN: 978-3-31-967906-8
• No. of pages: 136
• Dimensions: 149 mm x 14 mm x 220 mm
• Weight: 290 g
• Illustrations: X, 136 p.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science; Europa, Populäre Kultur, C, Popular Culture, Europe, Politik und Staat, European Politics, Germany, Communication, Politics & government, Media and Communication, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Europe—Politics and government, offensive television content