Publisher's Synopsis
The subject matter - popular television
The theoretical (ethnographic) approach which is absolutely current in media studies and is here extended to the production sphere
Authors previous publications include Conflict and Control in the Cinema, Melbourne: Macmillan, 1977; Chekhov: A Structuralist Study, London: Macmillan, 1981; Legends on the Screen: The narrative film in Australia 1919-1929, Sydney:Currency 1982; Australian Cinema:Industry, Narrative and Meaning, Sydney:Unwin & Allan,1983; A Country Practice:'Quality Soup', Sydney:Currency, 1986