02270cam a2200289Ii 4500 88560 20230410130543.0 800117s2005 enk 000 0 eng d 9780335217304 (hbk.) 0335217303 (hbk.) 033521729X (pbk.) 9780335217298 (pbk.) PN 1992.3 I91 2005 384.554 GRAL ITV cultures : independent television over fifty years / edited by Catherine Johnson, Rob Turnock. Maidenhead : Open University Press, 2005. viii, 217 p. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction : Approaching the histories of ITV / Catherine Johnson and Rob Turnock -- Part 1. Histories -- From start-up to consolidation : institutions, regions and regulations over the history of ITV / Catherine Johnson and Rob Turnock -- Importance, significance, cost and value : is an ITV canon possible? / John Ellis -- ǂt And the rest is history : Lew Grade, creation narratives and television historiography / Jonathan Bignell -- Part 2. Institutions -- Transatlantic ventures and Robin Hood / Steve Neale -- Mammon's television? ITV in Wales, 1959-63 / Jamie Medhurst -- London Weekend Television in the 1980s : programmes, public service obligations, financial incentives / Rod Allen -- From newsreels to a theatre of news : the growth and development of Independent Television News / Jackie Harrison -- Part 3. Texts and intertexts -- Rooms within rooms : Upstairs Downstairs and the studio costume drama of the 1970s / Helen Wheatley -- Real people with real problems? Public service broadcasting, commercialism and Trisha / Sherryl Wilson -- Who wants to be a fan of Who wants to be a millionaire? Scholarly television criticism, 'popular aesthetics' and academic tastes / Matt Hills -- Conclusions : ITV a hybrid subject ; Historical timeline : the ITV companies and the Broadcasting Acts / Catherine Johnson and Rob Turnock. ITV (Firm) History. Television broadcasting Great Britain History. Johnson, Catherine, 1973- Turnock, Robert. lcc bk ccruz. 76026 76026 0 0 lcc 0 0 HU BJB BJB HU 2023-04-10 1 0 PN 1992.3 I91 2005 00000022435 2018-10-25 00:00:00 1 2018-10-25 bk