The Persistence of Television

Informationen zum Autor Frances Bonner is Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Queensland, Australia. She researches non-fiction television, celebrity and adaptation. Her books include Personality Presenters: Television's Intermediaries with Viewers (2011), Ordinary Television (2003) and Fame Games (with Graeme Turner and P. David Marshall, 2000). Klappentext The Persistence of Television examines more than 60 years of television to identify the elements that have entertained and informed viewers from the beginning of mass broadcasting to the present day, proposing that most television viewing is rooted in traditional programming that is still largely received in conventional ways. The book includes the discussion of popular shows such as Doctor Who, Twin Peaks , Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? and David Attenborough's nature documentaries. On-screen faces, programmes and genres drawn from British, American and Australian television services are examined to demonstrate how continuity persists in the face of change. There's no denying the excitement or the value of the new, but the authors of this book argue that it runs in tandem with enduring aspects of the already existing. Vorwort Explores the persistence of television forms, genres, and personalities into a 'post broadcast' age. Zusammenfassung Explores the persistence of television forms, genres, and personalities into a 'post broadcast' age. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Introduction 1. What Television Means 2. Familiarity and Liveness 3. People on Screen 4. Light Entertainment: The Genres of Conviviality 5. Natural History 6. Reboots, Revivals, Remakes and Adaptations 7. Crime and Television Conclusion Endnotes References Index

Vorwort
Explores the persistence of television forms, genres, and personalities into a 'post broadcast' age.

Autorentext

Frances Bonner is Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Queensland, Australia. She researches non-fiction television, celebrity and adaptation. Her books include Personality Presenters: Television's Intermediaries with Viewers (2011), Ordinary Television (2003) and Fame Games (with Graeme Turner and P. David Marshall, 2000). **

Klappentext

The Persistence of Television examines more than 60 years of television to identify the elements that have entertained and informed viewers from the beginning of mass broadcasting to the present day, proposing that most television viewing is rooted in traditional programming that is still largely received in conventional ways.

The book includes the discussion of popular shows such as Doctor Who, Twin Peaks, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? and David Attenborough's nature documentaries. On-screen faces, programmes and genres drawn from British, American and Australian television services are examined to demonstrate how continuity persists in the face of change. There's no denying the excitement or the value of the new, but the authors of this book argue that it runs in tandem with enduring aspects of the already existing.

Inhalt

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. What Television Means
2. Familiarity and Liveness
3. People on Screen
4. Light Entertainment: The Genres of Conviviality
5. Natural History
6. Reboots, Revivals, Remakes and Adaptations
7. Crime and Television
   Conclusion

Endnotes
References
Index