Values and Choices in Television Discourse : A View From Both Sides of the Screen

The high-pressured, fast-paced environment of television production leaves little time for producers to reflect on how the potentialities of texts and images will be interpreted outside of the immediate broadcast imperatives. This volume brings together the producers and analysts of television in a formal and productive way. Front Matter....Pages i-xvi Front Matter....Pages 1-3 Promotional Videos....Pages 5-30 Evaluation as Positioning in English Language World News Channels....Pages 31-58 Camera Angles in Television News....Pages 59-86 Overweight and Obesity in TV News....Pages 87-108 Television, Collective Memory and the Commemoration Cure....Pages 109-131 The Representation of Travellers in Television Documentaries....Pages 132-157 MasterChef....Pages 158-182 Front Matter....Pages 183-184 What Makes the News Newsworthy....Pages 185-189 News as Political Commitment and Observations on Obesity....Pages 190-193 Engaging a Daytime Television Audience via Popular Magazine Programming....Pages 194-200 It’s Not a Disaster if It Doesn’t Make the 9 O’Clock News....Pages 201-206 Commercial Imperatives and Their Impact on the Values of the Contemporary Documentary and Reality Formats....Pages 207-215 Documentary-Making....Pages 216-222 Competition and Cookery in a Global Cultural Format....Pages 223-228 The Morals of the Money Shot....Pages 229-233 Authenticity in Documentary-Making....Pages 234-239 Documentary and Reality TV as Modern Fairytales....Pages 240-245 The Interplay between Conflict and Character in Drama and Its Possible Influences on the Construction of Reality Programming....Pages 246-250 Back Matter....Pages 251-255