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Description
Despite its enduring popularity with both broadcasters and audiences, the quiz show has found itself marginalised in studies of popular television.
This book offers a unique introduction to the study of the quiz show, while also revisiting, updating and expanding on existing quiz show scholarship.
Ranging across programmes such as Double Your Money, The $64,000 Dollar Question, Twenty-One, The Price is Right, Who Wants to be a Millionaire and The Weakest Link to the controversial 'Quiz TV Call' phenomenon, the book explores programmes with a focus on question and answer.
Topics covered include the relationship between quiz shows and television genre; the early broadcast history of the quiz show; questions of institutional regulation; quiz show aesthetics; the social significance of 'games'; 'ordinary' people as television performers, and questions of quiz show reception (from interactivity to on-line fandom). Key Features *Represents one of few book-length studies of the quiz show *Offers an accessible introduction to the genre for undergraduate students *Draws upon new archival research in order to contribute to knowledge about the early history of the quiz show *Demonstrates why the quiz show matters to Television Studies *Brings together key approaches in the field with new interventions and areas of study (such as the quiz show in the multi-platform age, and the study of 'ordinary' people as performers).
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:192 pages, 3 black & white illustrations
- Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
- Publication Date:13/10/2008
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- ISBN:9780748627523
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:192 pages, 3 black & white illustrations
- Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
- Publication Date:13/10/2008
- Category:
- ISBN:9780748627523
