Independent Television Production in the UK

First comprehensive history of the UK's independent TV sector
Presents qualitative insights into the nature of creative work in the UK indie sector

Includes interviews with people in the industry and key figures involved in the formation of Channel 4

First comprehensive history of the UK's independent TV sector Presents qualitative insights into the nature of creative work in the UK indie sector Includes interviews with a wide range of creative workers, from those in junior roles to senior figures in the industry

Autorentext
David Lee is Lecturer in Cultural Industries and Communication at the University of Leeds, UK. He is the co-author of Culture, Economy and Politics: The Case of New Labour (2015) and co-editor of Advancing Media Production Research (2016). He has published extensively in refereed journals and his research has been funded by the AHRC and the ESRC.

Inhalt

1. Chapter 1: Introduction: Situating Independent Television in the cultural economy.- 2. Part I: Independent transformations. The politics of independence: Contextualising independent television production in the UK - Chapter 2. The creation of the independent sector in the UK.- 3. Chapter 3. Creative Industries policy and the rise of the 'mega-indies'; Independent television production in the age of New Labour.- 4. Part II: Working in independent television - Chapter 4: Creative labour and social change.- 5. Chapter 5 Working in the Indies: Precarity, value and burnout.- 6. Chapter 6 Networks, social capital and the burden of performativity.- 7. Part III: Cultural Value - Chapter 7 Independent Creativity.- 8. Chapter 8: Commercialisation, consolidation and cultural value: The restructuring of the British independent television industry, and the implications for production.- 9. Chapter 9. Conclusion: towards a moral economy of independent television production. <p