Entertaining Television: The BBC and Popular Television Culture in the 1950s

Author:   Su Holmes ,  Bethan Hirst
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
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9780719088490


Pages:   232
Publication Date:   31 August 2013
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Su Holmes ,  Bethan Hirst
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.372kg
ISBN:  

9780719088490


ISBN 10:   0719088496
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   31 August 2013
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction 1 Public Service and the Popular: Debates and Developments 2 'Neighbours to the Nation': 'Soap Opera', the BBC and (Re)visiting The Grove Family (1954-57) 3 'The Give-Away Shows - But Who is Really Paying?' Rethinking Quiz and Game Shows on 1950s British Television 4 The Problem Show - 'An.. Unmarried mother sat in a wing-backed chair on TV last night.'BBC Television asks Is This Your Problem? (1955-57) 5 From 'Serialitis' to 'Torture, Treacle, Tears and Trickery': Framing Television Fame 6 Conclusion: 'There's nothing really better than what you're used to, is there?' Bibliography -- .

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Anyone interested in television studies, British or American and its history or present will find much here to inform and enhance their knowledge and interest. -- Kathleen Collins. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 92(2)


Anyone interested in television studies, British or American and its history or present will find much here to inform and enhance their knowledge and interest., Kathleen Collins, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, NY, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 92(2), 14 May 2015 -- .


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Su Holmes is Reader in Television Studies at the University of East Anglia -- .

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