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Writing for the Medium: Television in Transition(Film Culture in Transition)


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This collection of essays, by well known writers on the subject of writing for television, is divided into three sections, with the first one devoted to the debates on quality television. The second one focuses on literature and television. 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. This title is available in the OAPEN Library - http://www.oapen.org.

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

About the Author :
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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  • ISBN-13: 9789048503490
  • Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Amsterdam University Press
  • Series Title: Film Culture in Transition
  • ISBN-10: 9048503493
  • Publisher Date: 15 Dec 2014
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • Sub Title: Television in Transition


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