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Writing for the Medium Jan Simons

Writing for the Medium By Jan Simons

Writing for the Medium by Jan Simons


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Summary

Is there still room for literature and science on television ?

Writing for the Medium Summary

Writing for the Medium: Television in transition by Jan Simons

This collection of essays, by well known writers on the subject of writing for television, is divided into three sections, with the first one devoted to the debates on quality television. The second one focuses on literature and television. The final section examines 'Science on television', with series editors from Britain and Germany giving first-hand accounts of the scope for serious science reporting on television.

About Jan Simons

Jan Simons is associate professor of new media in the Department of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam and the head of the Creative Industries Research Center Amsterdam. He is the author of Playing the Waves: Lars von Trier's Game Cinema.||http://www.thomas-elsaesser.com/ target=_blank>Thomas Elsaesser is Professor of Film and Television Studies in the Department of Art and Culture at the University of Amsterdam.

Table of Contents

Writing for the Medium: Television in Transition - 2[-] CONTENTS - 6[-] General Introduction - 8[-] Part 1 - Quality Television - 14[-] Introduction - 16[-] Television in the Age of Consensus without Sense - 22[-] 'Quality' Television - 36[-] Quality Television in The Netherlands: Some Hopeful Reflections on Breaking the Taboo - 42[-] On the Quality of Soap - 50[-] Zapping One's Way into Quality: Arts Programmes on TV - 55[-] Definitions of Quality - 65[-] Questionable Quality or the Undiscoverable Quality of Television - 78[-] Part 2 - Literature on Television - 90[-] Introduction - 92[-] The Novelist and Television Drama - 99[-] On Achieving Good Television - 108[-] Speaking to Nations - 119[-] Television and Literature - 132[-] Literature after Television: Author, Authority, Authenticity - 138[-] Unwritable Films, Unfilmable Texts? - 150[-] Part 3 - Science on Television - 158[-] Introduction - 160[-] Gee-Wizards of the Box? - 165[-] Science on Television - 183[-] On Being God and Darwin - 187[-] Citizen Scientist or A Dinosaur for All Seasons? - 192[-] Science and Technology on TV: Four European Countries Compared - 195[-] Selected Bibliography - 204[-] The Contributors - 208[-] The Editors - 211[-] Film Culture in Transition: on the series - 212

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NLS9789053560549
9789053560549
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Writing for the Medium: Television in transition by Jan Simons
New
Paperback
Amsterdam University Press
1994-01-04
211
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