TV Critics and Popular Culture
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TV Critics and Popular Culture

A History of British Television Criticism

  1. 280 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

TV Critics and Popular Culture

A History of British Television Criticism

About this book

Ever since the first scheduled television broadcasts began in the 1930s, newspapers and magazines took quickly to reviewing this revolutionary new medium. The task of television criticism in the public doman intially fell to radio critics and journalists, but the 1950s saw the rise of the dedicated TV critic. These critics, including Peter Black, Philip Pursor and Clive James, played an important part in shaping the public discourse about television. This new book explores the evolution of television criticism in Britain, exploring different types of TV critics and reviewers, the form of their work, and evaluates their importance in our understanding of the way television has become such an integral part of modern culture. It also asks whether, with the birth of new technologies, is the TV critic a dying breed? This is an important contribution to the fields of Journalism and Television Studies, Cultural Studies, and contemporary History.

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Information

Publisher
I.B. Tauris
Year
2011
Print ISBN
9781848853195
eBook ISBN
9780857721051
Edition
1
Topic
History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. CONTENTS
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Introduction
  5. 1 Approaches to TV Criticism: Developing a Framework
  6. 2 The Rise of the Media Critic
  7. 3 The Rise of the Television Critic: TV as Art
  8. 4 Neo-criticism: Television as Television
  9. 5 Soft Television Criticism
  10. 6 Multichannel Television and TV Criticism
  11. 7 TV Criticism and the Internet: The Death of the TV Critic?
  12. Conclusion
  13. Television Programme Guide
  14. Bibliography
  15. Index