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Public issue television : world in action, 1963-98 / Peter Goddard, John Corner, Kay Richardson.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2007.Description: xiii, 250 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 071906256X (pbk.)
  • 9780719062568 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.44 GOD
Contents:
Introduction -- Origins: technology, innovation and social purpose interlude: the world tomorrow -- 1967-75: the classic period -- 1975-88: the Fitzwalter years -- 1988-98: current affairs as commodity -- organization and culture of production -- Documentary journalism and television form -- Regulation: policy and conflict -- Conclusion: television in action -- Index of world in action programmes.
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Standard Loan LSAD Library Main Collection 791.44 GOD (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 39002100452268

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Public issue television is a major contribution to understanding the relationship between television, politics and society. Based on full access to the archives, it offers a fascinating historical account of how one television series, Granada's World in Action, celebrated for its tough journalism, visual directness and public impact, functioned and developed over its run across 35 years between 1963 and 1998. In a succession of chapters looking at different periods in the series' development and at key dimensions of its distinctive identity, it gets deep inside the making of factual television and examines how a particular culture of production works within broader conditions of possibility and constraint. In particular, it charts the interwoven processes of change - technological, professional, aesthetic, institutional, economic, social and political.

As well as discussing achievement and success, it examines the tensions, the debates and open conflicts that formed part of the context within which the series was made and transmitted across four decades.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction -- Origins: technology, innovation and social purpose interlude: the world tomorrow -- 1967-75: the classic period -- 1975-88: the Fitzwalter years -- 1988-98: current affairs as commodity -- organization and culture of production -- Documentary journalism and television form -- Regulation: policy and conflict -- Conclusion: television in action -- Index of world in action programmes.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Acknowledgements (p. ix)
  • World in Action: some key names (p. xi)
  • A note on referencing (p. xiii)
  • 1 Introduction (p. 1)
  • 2 Origins: technology, innovation and social purpose (p. 8)
  • Interlude: The World Tomorrow (p. 37)
  • 3 1967-75: the classic period (p. 42)
  • 4 1975-88: the Fitzwalter years (p. 75)
  • 5 1988-98: current affairs as commodity (p. 105)
  • 6 Organisation and culture of production (p. 126)
  • 7 Documentary journalism and television form (p. 159)
  • 8 Regulation: policy and conflict (p. 185)
  • 9 Conclusion: television in action (p. 215)
  • Index of World in Action programmes (p. 224)
  • Index (p. 237)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Peter Goddard is Lecturer in the School of Politics and Communication Studies, University of Liverpool
John Corner is Professor in the School of Politics and Communication Studies, University of Liverpool
Kay Richardson is Reader in the School of Politics and Communication Studies, University of Liverpool

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