Overview

This collection of essays by well-known authors on the subject of writing for television is divided into three sections. The first is devoted to the debates about quality television. The second focuses on literature and television. Going beyond the the question of literary adaptation, prominent writers such as Malcolm Bradbury and Fay Weldon voice their concern, but also their continuing engagement, for a tradition of quality television writing, which they see as being under siege in the new world of deregulation and international co-productions. The final section examines Science on Television with series editors from Britain and Germany giving first-hand accounts of the scope for serious science reporting on television.

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Author:   Jan Simons ,  Lucette Bronk ,  Thomas Elsaesser
Publisher:   Amsterdam University Press
Imprint:   Amsterdam University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.00cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 22.50cm
Weight:   0.340kg
ISBN:  

9789053560549

ISBN 10:   9053560548
Pages:   211
Publication Date:   04 January 1994
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Awaiting stock  

Table of Contents

Writing for the Medium: Television in Transition - 2[-] CONTENTS - 6[-] General Introduction - 8[-] Part 1 - Quality Television - 14[-] Introduction - 16[-] Television in the Age of Consensus without Sense - 22[-] 'Quality' Television - 36[-] Quality Television in The Netherlands: Some Hopeful Reflections on Breaking the Taboo - 42[-] On the Quality of Soap - 50[-] Zapping One's Way into Quality: Arts Programmes on TV - 55[-] Definitions of Quality - 65[-] Questionable Quality or the Undiscoverable Quality of Television - 78[-] Part 2 - Literature on Television - 90[-] Introduction - 92[-] The Novelist and Television Drama - 99[-] On Achieving Good Television - 108[-] Speaking to Nations - 119[-] Television and Literature - 132[-] Literature after Television: Author, Authority, Authenticity - 138[-] Unwritable Films, Unfilmable Texts? - 150[-] Part 3 - Science on Television - 158[-] Introduction - 160[-] Gee-Wizards of the Box? - 165[-] Science on Television - 183[-] On Being God and Darwin - 187[-] Citizen Scientist or A Dinosaur for All Seasons? - 192[-] Science and Technology on TV: Four European Countries Compared - 195[-] Selected Bibliography - 204[-] The Contributors - 208[-] The Editors - 211[-] Film Culture in Transition: on the series - 212

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Thomas Elsaesser is Professor of the Department of Film and Television Studies at the Universiteit van Amsterdam and General Editor of the series Film Culture in Transition.|Jan Simons teaches Theory and aesthetics of Film at the Department of Film and Television Studies at the University of Amsterdam.|Lucette Bronk is Chairperson of the Dutch Screenwriters' Network and the editor of Plot, a quarterly magazine about screenwriting.

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