Itv Cultures: Independent Television Over Fifty Years

Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-0-335-21729-8
Verlag: McGraw-Hill Publishing Company

Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 376 g

“This exciting book goes to the heart of a creative commercialand public service culture - it shows why ITV matters and howit was made to work so well. A tremendous contribution.”
Professor Jean Seaton, University of Westminster“This is a valuable addition to studies of ITV's history andprogramming.”
Tom O'Malley, Professor of Media Studies, University of Wales, Aberyswyth, and Co-Editor of Media History.Since breaking the BBC’s monopoly in 1955, ITV has been at thecentre of the British television landscape. To coincide with thefiftieth anniversary of the first ITV broadcast, this accessible bookoffers a range of perspectives on the complex and multifaceted history ofBritain’s first commercial broadcaster.The book explores key tensions and conflicts which have influenced theITV service. Chapters focus on particular institutions, includingLondon Weekend Television and ITN, and programme forms, includingWho Wants to be a Millionaire?, Upstairs Downstairs and Trisha.The contributors show that ITV has had to tread an uneasy line betweenpublic service and commercial imperatives, between a pluralistic regionalstructure and a national network, and between popular appeal andquality programming. A timeline of key events in the history of ITV is alsoincluded.ITV Cultures provides a timely intervention in debates on broadcastingand cultural history for academics and researchers, and a livelyintroduction to the history of ITV for students and general readers. Contributors: Rod Allen, City University; Jonathan Bignell, University of Reading; John Ellis, Royal Holloway, University of London; Jackie Harrison, University of Sheffield; Jamie Medhurst, University of Wales, Aberystwyth; Matt Hills, Cardiff University; Steve Neale, University of Exeter; Helen Wheatley, University of Reading; Sherryl Wilson, Bournemouth University.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Johnson

Johnson, Catherine

Turnock, Rob

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft Radio- und Fernsehindustrie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Part 1: Histories
From Start-up to Consolidation: Institutions, Regions and Regulation in the History of ITV
A Prodigious Act of Memory: What Would an ITV Canon Look Like?
And the Rest is History: Lew Grade, the Creation Myth and Television HistoriographyPart 2: Institutions
The Transatlantic Adventures of British Television in the 1950s: Funding, Production, Programmes, Formats and the 'Official' History of ITV
Mammon’s Television? ITV in Wales, 1959-63
From Newsreels to a Theatre of News: The Growth and Development of Independent Television News
LWT in the 1980s: Factual Programmes, Public Service Obligations, Financial IncentivesPart 3: Texts and Intertexts
Channeling Celebrity: ITV and the Construction of Television Fame
Rooms Within Rooms: Upstairs Downstairs and the Studio Costume Drama of the 1970s
Who Wants to be a Fan of Who Wants to be a Millionaire? Television Criticism, “Popular Aesthetics” and the Question of Fan/Academic Tastes
Real People with Real Problems'?: Public Service Broadcasting, Commercialism and Trisha
Conclusion
Historical Timeline: The ITV Companies and the Broadcasting Acts
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Catherine Johnson is Lecturer in Television History and Theory, Department of Media Arts, Royal Holloway, University of London. She has published on factual entertainment, US television drama, and early British television. She is also the author of Telefantasy (2005: BFI). Rob Turnock is Lecturer in Media Theory, Bournemouth Media School, Bournemouth University. He was formerly post-doctoral research fellow on the AHRB funded project Did ITV Revolutionise British Television?. He is author of Television and Consumer Culture: Britain and the Transformation of Modernity (forthcoming: I.B. Tauris), and of Interpreting Diana: Television Audiences and the Death of a Princess (2000: BFI).