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Author Henderson, Lesley, author.

Title Social issues in television fiction / Lesley Henderson.

Publication Info. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2007.

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 200 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Summary 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.
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Subject Television plays -- Themes, motives.
Television plays.
Themes, motives.
Television viewers -- Attitudes.
Television viewers -- Attitudes.
Television viewers.
Television -- Social aspects.
Television -- Social aspects.
Television.
Social problems in mass media.
Social problems in mass media.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Henderson, Lesley. Social issues in television fiction. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2007 9780748625314 0748625313 (OCoLC)84996986
ISBN 9780748630899 (electronic book)
0748630899 (electronic book)
1280953136
9781280953132
9780748625314 (hardback)
0748625313 (hardback)
0748625321 (paperback)
9780748625321 (paperback)