Television drama : agency, audience, and myth /

"Views television drama from a cultural studies perspective, examining the active agency of both viewers and media practitioners. Tulloch looks at genres such as soap opera, science fiction, sitcoms and police series."--Publisher description

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access:	Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author:	Tulloch, John
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : Routledge, 1990
Series:	Studies in culture and communication.
Subjects:	Television plays > History and criticism. Television broadcasting. Television viewers. Popular culture. Communication. Television. Misinformation. Television Popular Culture Communication television (telecommunication system) popular culture. slide viewers (hand held devices) spectators (event observers) viewers (observers) communication functions. communication (function) Electronic books.
Local Note:	ProQuest Ebook Central

Table of Contents:

pt. 1: Popular TV drama: ideology and myth
'Soft' news: the space of TV drama
Genre and myth: 'a half-formed picture'
pt. 2: Authored drama: agency as 'strategic penetration'
'Reperceiving the world': making history
'Serious drama': the dangerous mesh of empathy
TV drama as social event: text and inter-text
Authored drama: 'not just naturalism'
Industry/performance: drama as 'strategic penetration'
pt. 3: Reading drama: audience use, exchange and play
'Use and exchange': delivering audiences
Sub-culture and reading formation: regimes of watching
Conclusion: comedies of 'myth' and 'resistance'
Comic order and disorder: residual and emergent cultures
'Marauding behaviour': parody, carnival and the grotesque.

Television drama : agency, audience, and myth /

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