John Ellis outlines here his ambitious project of redefining our view of television. Using the idea of "witness" to explore both television and its audiences, he focuses on the fudamental changes that this powerful medium has gone through in the last twenty years, demonstrating how it uses all the means at its disposal, from scheduling and talk shows to documentaries and computer graphics, to mediate between conflicting approaches to our modern age.
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John Ellis runs an independent television production company and teaches at the School of Media Arts and Communication, Bournemouth University.
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talk arena, choice fatigue, leisure programmes, generic mix, observational documentary, digital image manipulation, public service broadcasting, public service broadcasters, public service television, series drama, programme guide, television fiction Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Bill, United States, Coronation Street, New York, Animal Hospital, Basil Blackwell, Jeremy Isaacs, British Film Institute, Oxford University Press, Paddy Scannell, Second World War, Blind Date, Hollywood Television, Jostein Gripsrud, Delia Smith, John Corner, Michael Grade, Absolutely Fabulous, Man Alive, The Lug Show, The Television Studies Book, William Whitelaw, Age of Extremes, Christopher Anderson, Daily Mail New!
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We now live in a very crowded world. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
talk arena, choice fatigue, leisure programmes, generic mix, observational documentary, digital image manipulation, public service broadcasting, public service broadcasters, public service television, series drama, programme guide, television fiction Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Bill, United States, Coronation Street, New York, Animal Hospital, Basil Blackwell, Jeremy Isaacs, British Film Institute, Oxford University Press, Paddy Scannell, Second World War, Blind Date, Hollywood Television, Jostein Gripsrud, Delia Smith, John Corner, Michael Grade, Absolutely Fabulous, Man Alive, The Lug Show, The Television Studies Book, William Whitelaw, Age of Extremes, Christopher Anderson, Daily Mail New!
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- The British Film Institute: [Hc]: [1993-94]: House of Commons Papers: [1993-94] by Great Britain on 6 pages
- Television And Everyday Life by Roger Silverstone on 5 pages
- Living Room Wars: Rethinking Media Audiences by Ien Ang on 4 pages
- The Dynasty Years: Hollywood Television and Critical Media Studies (Comedia) by Jostein Gripsrud on 4 pages
- Inside Prime Time: With a New Introduction by Todd Gitlin on 4 pages
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- Small Screens, Big Ideas: Television in the 1950s by Janet Thumin in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Small Screens, Big Ideas: Television in the 1950s by Janet Thumin on page 18, and Back Matter
- The Television Handbook (Media Practice) by Jeremy Orlebar on page 118, and page 299
- American Science Fiction TV (Popular TV Genres) by Jan Johnson-Smith in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Reading Sex and the City (Reading Contemporary Television) by Kim Akass in Back Matter
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