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Entertaining television : The BBC and popular television culture in the 1950s
Author
Title
Entertaining television : The BBC and popular television culture in the 1950s / Su Holmes.
ISBN
9781526101594
9780719088490
1526101599
9780719077913
Edition
Paperback edition.
Publication
Manchester, UK Manchester University Press, 2013.
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021
Copyright Notice Date
©2013.
Physical Description
1 online resource (232 pages): illustrations
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Notes
First published: 2008.
Description based on print version record.
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Summary
Film, Television and Cinema.
This text makes a seminal contribution to British television history by focusing on the 'beginnings' of popular generic forms, such as soap operas, quiz/game shows and 'problem' shows. Su Holmes demonstrates how BBC television played an important role in developing these popular generic forms.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE books annual backfile collection 2021.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 13, 2023
Contents
Public servide and the popular: depates and developments "Neighbours to the nation": "Soap opera", the BBC (re)visiting The Grove family (1954-57)
"The 'give away' shows-but who is really paying": rethinking quiz and game shows on 1950s British television
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)
From "serialitis" to "torture, treacle, tears and trickery" framing the television fame
Conclusion: "There's nothing really better that what you are used to, is there?"
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
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