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Informationen zum Autor Peter Goddard is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Communication and Media at the University of Liverpool John Corner is Professor in the School of Politics and Communication Studies, University of Liverpool Kay Richardson is Reader in the School of Politics and Communication Studies, University of Liverpool Klappentext Public issue television is a major contribution to understanding the relationship between television, politics and society. Based on full access to the archives, it offers a fascinating historical account of how one television series, Granada's World in Action, celebrated for its tough journalism, visual directness and public impact, functioned and developed over its run across 35 years between 1963 and 1998. In a succession of chapters looking at different periods in the series' development and at key dimensions of its distinctive identity, it gets deep inside the making of factual television and examines how a particular culture of production works within broader conditions of possibility and constraint. In particular, it charts the interwoven processes of change - technological, professional, aesthetic, institutional, economic, social and political. As well as discussing achievement and success, it examines the tensions, the debates and open conflicts that formed part of the context within which the series was made and transmitted across four decades. Zusammenfassung Public issue television is a major contribution to understanding the relationship between television! politics and society. By tracing the history of the high-profile series World in Action across four decades it charts the interwoven processes of media practice and social change in a manner unrivalled in its depth and detail. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis World in Action: Some key names1. Introduction2. Origins: Technology, innovation and social purposeInterlude: The World Tomorrow3. 1967-75: The classic period4. 1975-88: The Fitzwalter years5. 1988-98: Current affairs as commodity6. Organisation and culture of production7. Documentary journalism and television form8. Regulation: policy and conflict9. Conclusion: television in actionWorld in Action editions: an index...
