Broadcasting and the NHS in the Thatcherite 1980s

The Challenge to Public Service
2013. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-349-32833-8
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 245 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 304 g

Patricia Holland offers a fascinating study of the ways in which changes to public services, and shifts in the concept of 'the public' under Margaret Thatcher's three Conservative governments, were mediated by radio and television in the 1980s.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Holland, Patricia

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prologue: Echoes of the 1980s Introduction: Thatcherism, the Public and Writing Broadcasting History PART I: PROGRAMMES AND CHRONOLOGY 1927 - 1970 1. Myths of Origin: Public Service or the Road to Serfdom? PART II: PROGRAMMES AND CHRONOLOGY 1970 - 1980 2. Freedom and the Public: Campaigner, Participant, Consumer 3. Broadcasting into the 1980s PART III: PROGRAMMES AND CHRONOLOGY 1979 - 1983 4. Restructuring Social Class 5. From Needs to Wants: Restructuring Audiences, Restructuring Patients 6. Your Life in Whose Hands? Restructuring Professionals PART IV: PROGRAMMES AND CHRONOLOGY 1983 - 1987 7. The Third Age and the Fresh Winds of Market Forces: Restructuring Broadcasting 8 Griffiths, Peacock and Restructuring Public Service 9. Aids and 'the public' at Risk PART V: PROGRAMMES AND CHRONOLOGY 1986 - 1990 10. Who's the Casualty? Popular Programmes 11. The NHS and Third Term Politics 12. 'Quality' and the Broadcasting White Paper Postscript: Public Service or Kitemark?

Über Autor(innen)

Patricia Holland is a writer, lecturer and researcher specialising in television, photography and popular imagery. She has many publications in these fields, including (2000) and (2006). She is currently a lecturer at Bournemouth University, UK, and has previously worked as an independent filmmaker, a community bookseller, a television editor and a freelance journalist.