TY  - BOOK
AU  - Johnson,Catherine
AU  - Turnock,Robert
TI  - ITV cultures: independent television over fifty years 
SN  - 9780335217304 (hbk.)
AV  - PN 1992.3 I91 2005
U1  - 384.554 
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Maidenhead
PB  - Open University Press
KW  - ITV (Firm)
KW  - History
KW  - Television broadcasting
KW  - Great Britain
N1  - 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
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