pt. 1: Popular TV drama: ideology and myth -- 'Soft' news: the space of TV drama -- Genre and myth: 'a half-formed picture' -- pt. 2: Authored drama: agency as 'strategic penetration' -- 'Reperceiving the world': making history -- 'Serious drama': the dangerous mesh of empathy -- TV drama as social event: text and inter-text -- Authored drama: 'not just naturalism' -- Industry/performance: drama as 'strategic penetration' -- pt. 3: Reading drama: audience use, exchange and play -- 'Use and exchange': delivering audiences -- Sub-culture and reading formation: regimes of watching -- Conclusion: comedies of 'myth' and 'resistance' -- Comic order and disorder: residual and emergent cultures -- 'Marauding behaviour': parody, carnival and the grotesque
Summary
"Views television drama from a cultural studies perspective, examining the active agency of both viewers and media practitioners. Tulloch looks at genres such as soap opera, science fiction, sitcoms and police series."--Publisher description
Analysis
Television Psychosocial aspects
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 308-315) and indexes
