Table of Contents

FIGURES

CONTRIBUTORS

Part A: INTRODUCTORY CONTEXTS

1. Studying Television Graeme Turner

2. History, Contexts, Politics, Policy Stuart Cunningham

Part B: THE SECTORS

3. Commercial Networks: Still the Ones? Jock Given

4. Public Service TV: An Endangered Species? Elizabeth Jacka

5. Television After Broadcasting Terry Flew and Christina Spurgeon

Part C: THE GENRES

6. Television News and Current Affairs: 'Welcome to Frontline' Graeme Turner

7. Lifestyle Programs: 'No choice but to choose' Frances Bonner

8. Soap Opera: 'No End of Story, Ever' Kate Bowles

9. Sport: The Genre that Runs and Runs David Rowe

10. Primetime Drama: 77 Sunset Strip to Seachange Alan McKee

11. The Television Live Event: From the 'Wandering Booby' to the 'Death of History' John Hartley

Part D: THE AUDIENCE

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About the Author

Stuart Cunningham is Professor of Media and Journalism at Queensland University of Technology. Graeme Turner is director of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland. They are editors of the leading textbook The Media in Australia and authors of many other works on the media.

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