The Church On British Television

Author : Marcus Harmes,Meredith Harmes,Barbara Harmes
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030381134

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The Church on British Television by Marcus Harmes,Meredith Harmes,Barbara Harmes Pdf

This book will be the first systematic and comprehensive text to analyze the many and contrasting appearances of the Church of England on television. It covers a range of genres and programs including crime drama, science fiction, comedy, including the specific genre of ‘ecclesiastical comedy’, zombie horror and non-fiction broadcasting. Readers interested in church and political history, popular culture, television and broadcasting history, and the social history of modern Britain will find this to be a lively and timely book. Programs that year after year sit enshrined as national favourites (for example Dad’s Army and Midsomer Murders) foreground the Church. From the Queen’s Christmas Message to royal weddings and Coronation Street, the clergy and services of England’s national church abound in television. This book offers detailed analysis of landmark examples of small screen output and raises questions relating to the storytelling strategies of program makers, the way the established Church is delineated, and the transformation over decades of congregations into audiences.

Author : Bob Crew
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781780921310

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Britain's Television Queen by Bob Crew Pdf

Focusing purely on Queen Elizabeth II's relationship with television, this book shows how she was ahead of the game in helping to change the face of British television from the outset of her reign in 1953 when she let the cameras into Westminster Abbey. The Queen embraced television at a time when Winston Churchill and her government advisors recommended that she should keep them out - on the grounds that the cameras would destroy her royal mystique - right through the 1950s which was Britain s television decade (for reasons that are not generally understood today), when Britain became the first nation in the world to have public service television. In 1969 the Queen opened the doors to the cameras once again for the invention of Britains first family-reality-TV, fly-on-the-wall programme, showing how she and her husband the Duke of Edinburgh and their children, Charles and Anne, went about their daily lives, thereby giving the seal of royal approval to reality-TV, ahead of the first programmes in the United States and the UK that followed in her wake. Queen Elizabeth II can accurately be described as a television queen, the first monarch to understand and embrace television and, in particular reality-TV, which is why she was light years ahead of other royals and her government ministers. Television was for her a right of passage and, not until she ran into bad and stormy weather with Princess Diana in the 1980s and 1990s, did she have any image problems with television. These problems no longer remain today, evidently, as once again the television arrangements are in full swing for her Diamond Jubilee celebrations this June. Queen Elizabeth II remains the most televised and visualised person in the world.

Author : Richard Wolff
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781441182067

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The Church on TV by Richard Wolff Pdf

The book enables readers to understand the representation of the church on television, how this compares to actual historical accounts of the church in the same era, and why popular culture depicts the church as it does. It examines TV's depiction of church leaders and the issues they faced over time.

Author : Kenneth M. Wolfe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015048479953

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The Churches and the British Broadcasting Corporation, 1922-1956 by Kenneth M. Wolfe Pdf

Kenneth Wolfe's magisterial book provides an authoritative study of religion and public broadcasting during one of its most important periods.

Author : Caroline Lusin,Ralf Haekel
Publisher : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783823301356

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Community, Seriality, and the State of the Nation: British and Irish Television Series in the 21st Century by Caroline Lusin,Ralf Haekel Pdf

Since the turn of the 21st century, the television series has rivalled cinema as the paradigmatic filmic medium. Like few other genres, it lends itself to exploring society in its different layers. In the case of Great Britain and Ireland, it functions as a key medium in depicting the state of the nation. Focussing on questions of genre, narrative form, and serialisation, this volume examines the variety of ways in which popular recent British and Irish television series negotiate the concept of community as a key component of the state of the nation.

Author : J. Bignell,S. Lacey
Publisher : Springer
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137327581

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British Television Drama by J. Bignell,S. Lacey Pdf

Featuring leading scholars of British television drama and noted writers and producers from the television industry, this new edition of British Television Drama evaluates past and present TV fiction since the 1960s, and considers its likely future.

Author : Chris Perry
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781900203609

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The Kaleidoscope British Christmas Television Guide 1937-2013 by Chris Perry Pdf

A Guide to British television programmes shown at Christmas time, throughout the years.

Author : Horace Newcomb
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2800 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781135194796

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Encyclopedia of Television by Horace Newcomb Pdf

The Encyclopedia of Television, second edtion is the first major reference work to provide description, history, analysis, and information on more than 1100 subjects related to television in its international context. For a full list of entries, contributors, and more, visit the Encyclo pedia of Television, 2nd edition website.

Author : Tom Cantrell,Christopher Hogg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137470225

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Acting in British Television by Tom Cantrell,Christopher Hogg Pdf

This fascinating text offers the first in-depth exploration of acting processes in British television. Focused around 16 new interviews with celebrated British actors, including Rebecca Front, Julie Hesmondhalgh, Ken Stott, Penelope Wilton and John Hannah, this rich resource delves behind the scenes of a range of British television programmes in order to find out how actors build their characters for television, how they work on set and location, and how they create their critically acclaimed portrayals. The book looks at actors' work across four diverse but popular genres: soap opera; police and medical drama; comedy; and period drama. Its insightful discussion of hit programmes and its critical and contextual post-interview analysis, makes the text an essential read for students across television and film studies, theatre, performance and acting, and cultural and media studies, as well as academics and anyone interested in acting and British television.

Author : Philip Kogan
Publisher : Kogan Page Publishers
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780749474812

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British Qualifications 2016 by Philip Kogan Pdf

Now in its 46th edition, British Qualifications is the definitive one-volume guide to every qualification on offer in the United Kingdom. With an equal focus on vocational studies, this essential guide has full details of all institutions and organizations involved in the provision of further and higher education and is an essential reference source for careers advisors, students and employers. It also includes a comprehensive and up-to-date description of the structure of further and higher education in the UK. The book includes information on awards provided by over 350 professional institutions and accrediting bodies, details of academic universities and colleges and a full description of the current framework of academic and vocational education. It is compiled and checked annually to ensure accuracy of information.

Author : Barbara Korte,Nicole Falkenhayner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000382693

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Heroes in Contemporary British Culture by Barbara Korte,Nicole Falkenhayner Pdf

This book explores how British culture is negotiating heroes and heroisms in the twenty-first century. It posits a nexus between the heroic and the state of the nation and explores this idea through British television drama. Drawing on case studies including programmes such as The Last Kingdom, Spooks, Luther and Merlin, the book explores the aesthetic strategies of heroisation in television drama and contextualises the programmes within British public discourses at the time of their production, original broadcasting and first reception. British television drama is a cultural forum in which contemporary Britain’s problems, wishes and cultural values are revealed and debated. By revealing the tensions in contemporary notions of heroes and heroisms, television drama employs the heroic as a lens through which to scrutinise contemporary British society and its responses to crisis and change. Looking back on the development of heroic representations in British television drama over the last twenty years, this book’s analyses show how heroisation in television drama reacts to, and reveals shifts in, British structures of feeling in a time marked by insecurity. The book is ideal for readers interested in British cultural studies, studies of the heroic and popular culture.

Author : Kogan Page
Publisher : Kogan Page Publishers
Page : 1004 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0749441372

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British Qualifications by Kogan Page Pdf

In a single volume, the new edition of this guide gives comprehensive coverage of the developments within the fast-changing field of professional, academic and vocational qualifications. career fields, their professional and accrediting bodies, levels of membership and qualifications, and is a one-stop guide for careers advisors, students and parents. It should also enable human resource managers to verify the qualifications of potential employees.

Author : Lez Cooke
Publisher : British Film Institute
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2003-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : UCSC:32106016493907

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British Television Drama by Lez Cooke Pdf

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Author : Kim Knott,Elizabeth Poole,Teemu Taira
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing Company
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781409448068

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Media Portrayals of Religion and the Secular Sacred by Kim Knott,Elizabeth Poole,Teemu Taira Pdf

Is it true that Christianity is being marginalised by the secular media, at the expense of Islam? Are the mass media Islamophobic? Is atheism on the rise in media coverage? Media Portrayals of Religion and the Secular Sacred explores such questions and argues that television and newspapers remain key sources of popular information about religion. They are particularly significant at a time when religious participation in Europe is declining yet the public visibility and influence of religions seems to be increasing. Based on analysis of mainstream media, the book is set in the context of wider debates about the sociology of religion and media representation. The authors draw on research conducted in the 1980s and 2008-10 to examine British media coverage and representation of religion and contemporary secular values, and to consider what has changed in the last 25 years. Exploring the portrayal of Christianity and public life, Islam and religious diversity, atheism and secularism, and popular beliefs and practices, several media events are also examined in detail: the Papal visit to the UK in 2010 and the ban of the controversial Dutch MP, Geert Wilders, in 2009. Religion is shown to be deeply embedded in the language and images of the press and television, and present in all types of coverage from news and documentaries to entertainment, sports reporting and advertising. A final chapter engages with global debates about religion and media

Author : Paul Cornell,Martin Day,Keith Topping
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : NYPL:33433036392581

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The Guinness Book of Classic British TV by Paul Cornell,Martin Day,Keith Topping Pdf