Dissident voices : the politics of television and cultural change /
A lively exploration of the cracks and fissures in mainstream TV media which allow 'dissident' voices to find expression - and to articulate critical perspectives.
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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London ; Sterling, Va. :
Pluto Press
1998.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt183q4t9 |
Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Notes
- 1. 'Reality or Nothing'? Dennis Potter's Cold Lazarus (1996)
- Notes
- 2. Counter-Hegemonic Strategies in Between the Lines
- Hegemony, Ubermensch, and Gramsci
- The Context and Process of Production
- Narrative and the Concept of 'the Hero'
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 3. Crisis and Opportunity: Class, Gender and Allegory in The Grand
- Realism: Some Earlier Debates
- Allegory
- Structure and Typology in The Grand
- The Individual and Society
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 4. Bare Necessities and Naked Luxuries: The 1990s Male as Erotic Object
- Notes
- 5. 'The Fierce Light': The Royal Romance with Television
- Notes
- 6. 'Progressive' Television Documentary and Northern Ireland
- The Films of Michael Grigsby in a 'Postcolonial' Context
- The Trouble With 'Progressiveness'
- Putting Method in Perspective
- Victims and Villains
- Speaking up for Others
- Notes
- 7. The Exquisite Corpse of Rab(Elais) C(opernicus) Nesbitt
- In the Beginning was the Word . . .
- Is There Such a Thing as Scottish Screen Acting?
- Where Extremes Meet
- Glasgow's Miles Better
- Class and Nation in Rab C Nesbitt
- A Structuring Absence?
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 8. The Politics of Ridicule: Satire and Television
- What is it and How Does it Work? satire
- A Question of Balance
- . . . it's Not Going to Bring Down the Government, is it?
- Jeremy Hardy
- Mark Steel
- Mark Thomas
- New Labour, New Satire?
- Notes
- 9. Not a Lot of Laughs: Documentary and Public Service
- Notes
- 10. Dissidence and Authenticity in Dyke Porn and Actuality TV
- Notes
- 11. Downloading the Documentary
- Notes
- Index
- Adorno, Theodor, 26
- Althusser, Louis, 122
- american TV 147-8
- Anderson, Benedict 87
- Bare Necessities, The 5
- Barker, Martin 23
- Barthes, Roland
- 45.
- 122
- Baudrillard, Jean 86-7
- Baywatch 60
- Benjamin, Walter 6
- Between The Lines
- 4
- 33-9
- Beverly Hills 90210
- Bill, The 36
- Billig, Michael 102
- Bird, John 128
- Black and Blue 4
- Blackadder 8
- Bladerunner 13
- Blair, Tony 13
- Brass Eye 127
- Brecht, Bertold 41-3
- Bremner, Rory
- 128
- 132-3
- British Broadcasting Corporation
- 3
- 12-13
- Broomfield, Nick 146
- Brunt, Rosalind 73
- Bryden, Bill 110-11
- Cahiers du Cinema 109-10
- capitalism 2
- Carroll, Noel 153
- Cassidy, Seamus 128
- Catholic 98-9
- Cathy Come Home 22
- Channel Four 3
- class 17
- Cold Lazarus 3
- Corner, John 94
- Country 45
- Coward, Ros 75
- Cracker 4
- Craig, Cairns 107
- Crisell, Andrew 78
- Curtis, Liz 92
- Days of Hope 41
- Death of A Nation 151
- Death On The Rock 135
- Derrida, Jacques 171-2
- documentary
- 9-11
- 145-58
- Drew, Robert 157
- Drifters 96
- Eagleton, Terry 53
- Eastenders 42
- Eisenstein, Sergei 96
- Ellis, John 75
- Empire 18
- Ethnicity 32
- Eurotrash 163
- Falk, Pasi 160
- Family, The 149
- Fanon, Franz 7
- Fiske, John 93
- form 17
- Fortune, John 128-29
- Foucault, Michel 52
- Four Weddings and a Funeral 112
- Freud, Sigmund 162
- Full Monty, The 5
- Garnett, Tony 23
- gender
- 32-3
- [and sexuality] 50-7
- [and sexuality] 50-7
- [and sexuality] 58-71
- [and sexuality] 58-71
- genre 23-4
- Glasgow
- 108
- 116-18
- God's Gift 63-5
- Grade, Michael 3
- Graef, Roger 149
- Gramsci, Antonio
- 11
- 116
- Grand, The 5
- Gray, Alasdair 117
- Grierson, John
- 96-7
- 148
- Griffiths, Trevor 45
- Grigsby, Michael 7
- Hall, Stuart 101-2
- Hardy, Jeremy
- 130
- 143
- Hartley, John 93
- Have I Got News For You
- 127
- 132
- Hill Street Blues 34
- Hislop, Ian 128
- Hobsbawm, Eric 19.
- Hoggart, Richard 17-18
- Hollywood 49
- Homicide 34
- Hood, Stuart 135
- Hurd, Geoffrey 31
- Hutton, Will 57
- identity [national]
- 7
- 45-6
- Ideology 44
- Independent Television Commission 28
- Independent Television [ITV]
- 3
- 40
- Internet 163
- It's a Royal Knockout 6
- Jameson, Fredric 16
- Jenkin, Guy 136-7
- Jennings, Humphrey
- 96
- 150
- jouissance 9
- Karaoke 13
- Kelman, James 108-9
- Kern, Richard 159
- Kilborn, Richard 146-7
- Labour Party 7
- Lacan, Jacques 44
- Laing, Stuart 29
- Laplanche, Jean 162
- Leacock, Richard 157
- Lenin, V.I. 46
- Lifesavers 160
- Lipstick On Your Collar 12
- Listen To Britain 96
- Living On The Edge 97
- London 33-4
- Long Johns, The 130
- Lovell, Alan 96
- Lukacs, Georg
- 5
- 56
- MacCabe, Colin 41
- Major, John 127
- Man Alive 150
- Man O' Man 63-6
- Marr, Andrew 141-2
- Martin, Troy Kennedy 23
- Marxism 24-5
- McArthur, Colin 41
- McGrath, John 23
- McIlvanney, William 115
- McNaughton, Adam 110
- Midnight Movie 12
- Miller, David 92
- Modern Times 60
- modernism 41-2
- monarchy 2
- Moore, Michael 144
- Moore, Suzanne 25-6
- Morgan, Edwin 115-16
- Morley, David 102
- Morris, Chris 135
- Mulvey, Laura 67
- Munro, David 150
- Murdoch, Rupert
- 13-14
- 177
- Naked Television 120
- Naked Video 124
- Naremore, James 111
- naturalism 42
- Negroponte, Nicholas 176
- Newman, G.F. 23
- Nichols, Bill 145
- Nietzsche 49-50
- Northern Ireland
- 7
- 124
- NYPD Blue 34
- Obscene Publications Act 163
- Omnibus 6
- One Foot In The Grave 8
- Panorama 6
- Pattison, Ian 116
- People's Century, A 154
- Pilger, John 150
- Plowman, Jon
- 129-30
- 135-6
- Police, Camera, Action! 10
- pornography 9
- Postman, Neil 14
- postmodernism
- 11
- 168
- Potter, Dennis 3-4
- Prime Suspect 4.
- Prince Charles 2
- Princess Diana 6
- Public Service television
- 3
- 19
- Punky Girls 163-75
- Queen Elizabeth II 72
- Rab C. Nesbitt 2
- Real Holiday Show, The 167-8
- realism 44-6
- Reid, Jimmy 111
- Reith, John 152
- Root, Anthony 47-8
- Rory Bremner, Who Else?
- 127
- 132
- Rushdie, Salman 4
- Ryall, Tom 24
- Said, Edward 7
- Satanic Verses, The 4
- satire 8
- Scannell, Paddy 74
- Scotland 7-8
- Shohat, Ella 105
- Silent War, The 98-101
- Silverman, Kaja 172
- Singing Detective, The 15
- Soros, George 2
- Spitting Image 83
- Star Wars 13
- Steel, Mark 140
- Stop, Police! 159
- Strasberg, Lee 112-13
- Straw, Jack 25-6
- Sweeney, The 31
- Teletubbies 2
- Televising Terrorism 93-4
- That Was The Week That Was
- 127
- 132
- Thatcher, Margaret 15
- Thatcherism
- 1-2
- 45
- This Life. 42
- Thoi Noi 102
- Thomas, Mark
- 133
- 144
- Time of Our Lives, The 95-7
- Too Long A Sacrifice 98
- Trainspotting 112
- unconscious [the] 10
- Undercurrents 10
- video 159-75
- Video Diaries 167
- Video Nation 151
- Watson, Paul 149
- Williams, Linda 164
- Williams, Raymond 19
- Wilsher, John 23
- Winston, Brian 98
- Wood, Anthony 46
- World In Action 155
- X-Cars 159
- X-Files 60
- Yentob, Alan 3
- You've Been Framed!
- 9
- 160
- Young Mr Lincoln 122
- Z-Cars 29.