Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 234 pages)
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illustrations
Edition:
First edition
Edition:
Also available in print
ISBN:
0857710389
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1423787757
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184511051X
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9781423787754
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9781845110512
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9780857710383
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9780755695478
Content:
Current affairs television in the UK, in more than half a century of programmes, has set out to tell us something we didn't know, treating its audience as citizens with the right to demand that 'something must be done'. Over their 36 year history, the current affairs series "This Week" and its replacement "TVEye", helped to mark out that democratic project. This is the story of "This Week", one of the few giants of the genre, set within the wider pattern of 'the angry buzz' of inquiry and dissent that is current affairs television. This is a particularly timely ta
Content:
Preface; Acknowledgements; Author's Note; Introduction: Democracy and Public Service Television; 1 -- More Fun than Panorama: Current Affairs in a Frivolous Medium; 2 -- The Pilkingtons Take Over; 3 -- Into the 'Golden Age'?; 4 -- Moments of Excess; 5 -- This Week and Northern Ireland, Part 1: Five Long Years; 6 -- This Week and Northern Ireland, Part 2: More Than We Wanted to Know; 7 -- Passion or Sensation: Tveye; 8 -- More Drums: Death and the Rock; Postscript: Next Week: Citizens Still?; References; Index.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-226) and index
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Also available in print.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781845110512
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780857710383
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0857710389
Additional Edition:
ISBN 184511051X
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Holland, Patricia, 1936- Angry buzz London ; New York : I.B. Tauris ; New York, NY : In the United States and in Canada distributed by Palgrave Macmillan, 2006
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9780755695478
