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Public issue television

World in Action' 1963โ€“98
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Public Issue Television offers a detailed historical exploration of Granada's World in Action, a television series renowned for its investigative journalism and public influence. Spanning 35 years from 1963 to 1998, the book examines the evolution of this groundbreaking series through technological, professional, aesthetic, institutional, economic, social, and political changes. Drawing on full archive access, it provides an in-depth analysis of the production culture behind factual television and the various tensions and debates that shaped its creation and broadcast.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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Ideal for readers interested in television studies, political communication, media history, and cultural studies.

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Public issue television is a major contribution to understanding the relationship between television, politics and society. By tracing the history of the high-profile series World in Action across four decades it charts the interwoven processes of media practice and social change in a manner unrivalled in its depth and detail.

Public issue television is a major contribution to understanding the relationship between television, politics and society.

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Public issue television is a major contribution to understanding the relationship between television, politics and society. Based on full access to the archives, it offers a fascinating historical account of how one television series, Granada's World in Action, celebrated for its tough journalism, visual directness and public impact, functioned and developed over its run across 35 years between 1963 and 1998.

In a succession of chapters looking at different periods in the series' development and at key dimensions of its distinctive identity, it gets deep inside the making of factual television and examines how a particular culture of production works within broader conditions of possibility and constraint. In particular, it charts the interwoven processes of change - technological, professional, aesthetic, institutional, economic, social and political.

As well as discussing achievement and success, it examines the tensions, the debates and open conflicts that formed part of the context within which the series was made and transmitted across four decades.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780719062568

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 November 2007

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Manchester University Press

Illustration: Illustrations, black & white

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 14.0mm

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 376g

Pages: 264

About the Author

Peter Goddard is Lecturer in the School of Politics and Communication Studies, University of Liverpool. John Corner is Professor in the School of Politics and Communication Studies, University of Liverpool. Kay Richardson is Reader in the School of Politics and Communication Studies, University of Liverpool

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