Australian television : programs, pleasures and politics / edited by John Tulloch and Graeme Turner.

Media, communications and cultural studies form a rapidly growing part of secondary and tertiary education in Australia, yet there have been few books dealing specifically with Australian television. This is the first wide ranging study of television in Australia, and includes a coverage of the cult...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Other Authors: Tulloch, John (Editor), Turner, Graeme (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
Series:Australian cultural studies.
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Table of Contents:
  • General Editor's PrefacePrefaceContributors1 Three stages of Australian television2 The converging of film and television3 Transgressive TV: From In Melbourne Tonight to Perfect Match4 Textual innovation in the Australian historical mini-series5 In praise of Prisoner6 Everyday quizzes, everyday life7 Television documentary8 Publicising progress: science on Australian television9 Soaps and ads: flow and segmentation10 Continuous pleasures in marginal places: TV, continuity and the construction of communities11 Children and television12 Changed times, changed tunes: music and the ideology of the news13: Afterword: approaching audiences - a note on methodIndex.