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Popular television in Britain : studies in cultural history

Title: Popular television in Britain : studies in cultural history / edited by John Corner.
Publication: London : BFI Pub., 1991.

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Additional Authors

Corner, John, 1943-

Description

viii, 211 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

Genre/Form

History

Note

Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

General Introduction: Television and British Society in the 1950s / John Corner -- Before the Golden Age: Early Television Drama / John Caughie -- Documentary Voices / John Corner -- Every Wart and Pustule: Gilbert Harding and Television Stardom / Andy Medhurst -- 'Hancock's Half Hour': A Watershed in British Television Comedy / Peter Goddard -- Television and Pop: The Case of the 1950s / John Hill -- Wise Scientists and Female Androids: Class and Gender in Science Fiction / Joy Leman -- Banging In Some Reality: The Original 'Z Cars' / Stuart Laing -- Filth, Sedition and Blasphemy: The Rise and Fall of Television Satire / Andrew Crisell -- Television Memories and Cultures of Viewing 1950-65 / Tim O'sullivan -- 'Grandstand', the Sports Fan and the Family Audience / Garry Whannel -- All Bark and No Bite: The Film Industry's Response to Television / Edward Buscombe.

ISBN

0851702694
9780851702698
0851702708
9780851702704

LCCN

91222756

OCLC

ocm26857840
26857840
SCSB-1963817

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library