Performing Arts : Television

Despite its enduring popularity with both broadcasters and audiences, the quiz show has found itself marginalised in studies of popular television. This book offers a unique introduction to the study of the quiz show, while also revisiting, updating and expanding on existing quiz show scholarship. Ranging across programmes such as Double Your Money, The $64,000 Dollar Question, Twenty-One, The Price is Right, Who Wants to be a Millionaire and The Weakest Link to the controversial 'Quiz TV Call' phenomenon, the book explores programmes with a focus on question and answer. Topics covered include the relationship between quiz shows and television genre; the early broadcast history of the quiz show; questions of institutional regulation; quiz show aesthetics; the social significance of 'games'; 'ordinary' people as television performers, and questions of quiz show reception (from interactivity to on-line fandom). Key Features. *Represents one of few book-length studies of the quiz show. *Offers an accessible introduction to the genre for undergraduate students. *Draws upon new archival research in order to contribute to knowledge about the early history of the quiz show. *Demonstrates why the quiz show matters to Television Studies. *Brings together key approaches in the field with new interventions and areas of study (such as the quiz show in the multi-platform age, and the study of 'ordinary' people as performers). more...

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Do you have a concept for a reality TV show, but arenand#39;t sure about the next steps? This book includes advice on how to: better understand the nature, complexities, and potential of the reality genre; physically produce original reality programming; and get past the gatekeepers and deliver quality pitches to major networks and production companies. more...

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Real TV examines the dual themes of ethics and public interest in relation to the genre of popular factually entertainment. more...

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Sikes traces the shifting role of performance in the fashioning of subjectivity from the Modern to the Postmodern eras. The book joins history and historiography and is grounded in a body of research about varied performance subjects from court dance, ballet, opera, festivals, celebrations, propaganda films, Hollywood movies to reality TV. more...

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Outlines the main skills, techniques and practices for the job of the researcher. An easy to follow guide to production research, it will help the new researcher to understand the possibilities to be considered when undertaking research and the kind of questions that need to be asked at each stage of the production process. Every project, whether it's a programme for television or radio or an article for publication is different and there is no one, correct answer to each situation.Based on the author's wealth of experience as a researcher on many and varied kinds of broadcast and non-broadcast programmes, this quick reference will guide the reader through the problems they are likely to encounter and help to resolve them. It also includes many tips to help the reader gain a better understanding of the real world of production. Research for Media Production is a rework and expanded edition of Production Research also written by Kathy Chater. more...

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