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List of contents
Foreword
Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Glossary
Introduction
1 Australia's television culture
2 High communications policy in Australia
3 The rise and fall of entrepreneurial television, 1986-92
4 Television's double face: Of imported and local programming
5 Television and national culture
6 National television in the new cultural order
7 SBS-TV: Symbolic politics and multicultural policy in television provision (with Dona Kolar-Panov)
8 SBS-TV: A television service (with Dona Kolar-Panov)
9 An Aboriginal television culture: Issues, strategies, politics (with Philip Batty)
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Tom O'Regan is Senior Lecturer in Communication Studies at Murdoch University and an editor of Continuum: the Australian journal of media and culture. He co-edited An Australian Film Reader and The Australian Screen, both with Albert Moran.
Summary
Australian television has been transformed over the past decade. Australian Television Culture is the first book to offer a comprehensive analysis of the fundamental changes of this period. It is also the first to offer a substantial treatment of the significance of multiculturalism and Aboriginal initiatives in television.
