viii, 237 pages ; 23 cm
Drama documentary is a programme category unique to television. Combining the factual approach of documentary with the entertainment values of drama, dramadoc/docudrama has featured in television schedules for over forty years, and has often been the focus of controversy. Questions are frequently asked about how the viewer is to judge between fact and fiction, and whether such programmes invade individuals' privacy. No other way to tell it is an introductory book which defines the form, and reviews its history and development on British and American television. The people who make the programmes - television producers, writers, actors and lawyers - give their views, and recent co-production work between Granada TV in Britain and Home Box Office in America is examined. Hostages, a co-production which was bitterly opposed by the British and American hostages released from captivity in Beirut at the beginning of the 1990s, is used to illustrate the changes that are now taking place within the medium. The book will interest students of the media and of drama, and also those who question television's right to make drama out of other people's crises.oters and th ø0
Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-229) and index
1. Dramadoc/docudrama -- preparation and production -- 2. Dramadoc/docudrama -- the law and regulation -- 3. Codes and conventions -- 4. Keywords -- 5. Blurring the boundaries -- 6. Histories -- 7. High concept/low concept -- the modern trauma drama -- 8. Futures -- only one way to it?
Drama documentary is a programme category unique to television. Combining the factual approach of documentary with the entertainment values of drama, dramadoc/docudrama has featured in television schedules for over forty years, and has often been the focus of controversy. Questions are frequently asked about how the viewer is to judge between fact and fiction, and whether such programmes invade individuals' privacy. No other way to tell it is an introductory book which defines the form, and reviews its history and development on British and American television. The people who make the programmes - television producers, writers, actors and lawyers - give their views, and recent co-production work between Granada TV in Britain and Home Box Office in America is examined. Hostages, a co-production which was bitterly opposed by the British and American hostages released from captivity in Beirut at the beginning of the 1990s, is used to illustrate the changes that are now taking place within the medium. The book will interest students of the media and of drama, and also those who question television's right to make drama out of other people's crises.oters and th ©ı0
Drama documentary is a programme category unique to television. Combining the factual approach of documentary with the entertainment values of drama, dramadoc/docudrama has featured in television schedules for over forty years, and has often been the focus of controversy. Questions are frequently asked about how the viewer is to judge between fact and fiction, and whether such programmes invade individuals' privacy. No other way to tell it is an introductory book which defines the form, and reviews its history and development on British and American television. The people who make the programmes - television producers, writers, actors and lawyers - give their views, and recent co-production work between Granada TV in Britain and Home Box Office in America is examined. Hostages, a co-production which was bitterly opposed by the British and American hostages released from captivity in Beirut at the beginning of the 1990s, is used to illustrate the changes that are now taking place within the medium. The book will interest students of the media and of drama, and also those who question television's right to make drama out of other people's crises.oters and th ø0
Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-229) and index
1. Dramadoc/docudrama -- preparation and production -- 2. Dramadoc/docudrama -- the law and regulation -- 3. Codes and conventions -- 4. Keywords -- 5. Blurring the boundaries -- 6. Histories -- 7. High concept/low concept -- the modern trauma drama -- 8. Futures -- only one way to it?
Drama documentary is a programme category unique to television. Combining the factual approach of documentary with the entertainment values of drama, dramadoc/docudrama has featured in television schedules for over forty years, and has often been the focus of controversy. Questions are frequently asked about how the viewer is to judge between fact and fiction, and whether such programmes invade individuals' privacy. No other way to tell it is an introductory book which defines the form, and reviews its history and development on British and American television. The people who make the programmes - television producers, writers, actors and lawyers - give their views, and recent co-production work between Granada TV in Britain and Home Box Office in America is examined. Hostages, a co-production which was bitterly opposed by the British and American hostages released from captivity in Beirut at the beginning of the 1990s, is used to illustrate the changes that are now taking place within the medium. The book will interest students of the media and of drama, and also those who question television's right to make drama out of other people's crises.oters and th ©ı0
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some text/cut text is close to the gutter due too tight binding inherent from the source.
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