Australian Television - Programs, Pleasures and Politics

List of contents

General Editor's Preface

Preface

Contributors

1 Three stages of Australian television

2 The converging of film and television

3 Transgressive TV: From In Melbourne Tonight to Perfect Match

4 Textual innovation in the Australian historical mini-series

5 In praise of Prisoner

6 Everyday quizzes, everyday life

7 Television documentary

8 Publicising progress: science on Australian television

9 Soaps and ads: flow and segmentation

10 Continuous pleasures in marginal places: TV, continuity and the construction of communities

11 Children and television

12 Changed times, changed tunes: music and the ideology of the news

13: Afterword: approaching audiences - a note on method

Index

About the author

JOHN TULLOCH and GRAEME TURNER are two of Australia's leading writers, researchers and teachers in the field of media and cultural studies. JOHN TULLOCH is Associate Professor in Mass Communications at Macquarie University and his books include Legends and Australian Cinema: Industry, Narrative and Meaning. GRAEME TURNER is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at Queensland Institute of Technology and he is the author of National Fictions and co-author of Myths of Oz.

Summary

Australian Television is a comprehensive study of television in Australia, covering the cultural and institutional history of Australian television and examining of a wide range of television programming.

Product details

• Authors: John Tulloch, John Turner Tulloch, Graeme Turner, Graeme (University of Queensland Turner
• Assisted by: John Tulloch (Editor), Tulloch John (Editor), Graeme Turner (Editor), Turner Graeme (Editor), John Tulloch (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9780367717452
• ISBN: 978-0-367-71745-2
• No. of pages: 220
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science; Australia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, TV & society, Media studies: TV and society, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / Arts & Humanities