Australian Television A Genealogy of Great Moments

Name: Australian Television A Genealogy of Great Moments
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ISBN: 9780195512250

ISBN-10: 0195512251

ISBN-13: 9780195512250

Edition: 2001

Authors: Alan McKee

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This is the first book to present a history of Australian television in which the programs themselves are the main focus of attention. In addition to providing an invaluable and comprehensive archive of information for anybody interested in the history of the medium, the book raises important questions about the ways in which we think about television.

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/3/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 8.90" wide x 6.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Australian Television: A Genealogy of Great Moments	p. 1
In Melbourne Tonight/The Graham Kennedy Show: Advertising Transgression	p. 17
Four Corners: Convincing Bias	p. 33
Homicide: Life on the Melbourne Streets	p. 51
The Mavis Bramston Show: Popular Politics	p. 68
Playschool: Forbidden Pleasures	p. 83
Number 96: Speaking Sex and Showing Sex	p. 98
Anyhow ... Have a Winfield: Selling Ordinary Nationalism	p. 118
Countdown: Sex and Drugs and Ambivalent Identities	p. 136
The Sullivans: Nostalgic Visions of Perfect Women	p. 151
Prisoner: Unglamorous Heroines	p. 166
Sale of the Century: 'And the Ladies Look Beautiful Too'	p. 185
A Country Practice: Making Issues Social	p. 199
Return to Eden: Australianising America	p. 218
Neighbours: National Niceness	p. 237
Burke's Backyard: Neighbourly Communities	p. 255
Live and Sweaty: 'When is Nudity Acceptable in Sport?'	p. 276
Frontline: Media Studies Media	p. 290
Conclusion: Television Choices	p. 309
References	p. 319
Index	p. 356
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