TY  - BOOK
AU  - Henderson,Lesley
TI  - Social issues in television fiction
SN  - 9780748630899
AV  - PN1992.6 .H46 2007eb
U1  - 302.2345 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Edinburgh
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
KW  - Television plays
KW  - Themes, motives
KW  - Television viewers
KW  - Attitudes
KW  - Television
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Social problems in mass media
KW  - Dramatiques (Émissions télévisées)
KW  - Thèmes, motifs
KW  - Téléspectateurs
KW  - Télévision
KW  - Aspect social
KW  - Problèmes sociaux dans les médias
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Media Studies
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; pt. 1. Mapping the field. Television fiction in context: education and entertainment -- pt. 2. Inside the industry. Making 'good' television: creative philosophies, professionalism and production values -- pt. 3. Struggles over television production. General introduction -- Family secrets: sexual violence -- A woman's disease: breast cancer -- Casting the outsiders: mental distress -- Social issues, production and genre -- pt. 4. Social issues and television audiences. Public understandings, sexual violence and safe spaces -- pt. 5. Television fiction and public knowledge. Conclusions -- Appendix: Focus group session participants; Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK); Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010
N2  - Why are some controversial issues covered in TV soaps and dramas and not others? How are decisions really made 'behind the scenes'? How do programme makers push boundaries without losing viewers? What do audiences take away from their viewing experience? Does TV fiction have a greater impact on public understandings than TV news? This exciting new book draws on unique empirical data to examine the relationship between popular television fiction and wider society. The book gives lively and engaging insights into how and why socially sensitive story lines were taken up by different TV programmes from the late 1980s to the 2000s. Drawing on a series of case studies of medicine, health, illness and social problems including breast cancer, mental distress, sexual abuse and violence it comprehensively traces the path of storylines from initial conception through to audience reception and uses contemporary examples to link practice to theory. For the first time, this book addresses production and reception processes across a range of programmes and clearly demonstrates the ways in which television fiction plays a vital and powerful role in reflecting and shaping socio-cultural attitudes. Key Features nterviews with TV drama programme makers (producers, script writers and editors) detailed analysis of 'on screen' representation qualitative audience research using focus groups and innovative methods explores external influences on programme content including commercial imperatives, broadcast regulations, the role of campaigning organisations, wider media coverage. The book is essential reading for academics, researchers and students in the fields of media studies, sociology, cultural studies and communications. It will also be of interest to health communicators, social policy practitioners and broadcast professionals
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