Janet Thumim

Inventing Television Culture

Men, Women, and the Box

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Through close attention to three discrete areas of programming (women's programmes, news and current affairs, and popular drama), the book aims to convey a sense of the excitement entailed in establishing the institution and to ask where and how it may have posed challenges to the prevailing patriarchal hegemony. Hence the productive interplay of two terms, television and the feminine, both of which were evolving rapidly during the period, is explored in the context of the contemporary discursive climate.

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Television as we know it was invented through processes of trial and error. This book delivers the uncertainties and excitements of 1955-65 by looking at women's programs, current affairs, and popular drama. Programs had to be devised and the mass audience built. Though women were central to this audience their images were often demeaning, in line with fifties paternalism. Janet Thumim brilliantly illuminates television's role in Britain of the 50s and 60s, revealing the interplay of media and the feminine.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9780198742234
• ISBN-10: 0198742231
• Artikelnr.: 21527013

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: Early Television Culture in the UK
* 1.: The Formation of Television in the UK 1955-65
* 2.: Factual Programming
* 3.: Factual Programmes: 'The Wednesday Magazine', 'Panorama',
'Marriage Today', 'Living for Kicks'
* 4.: Drama for the Mass Audience
* 5.: Popular Drama: 'The Grove Family', 'Life with the Lyons', 'Dixon
of Dock Green'
* 6.: Women, Work, and Television