
Writing for the Medium
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ISBN
90-5356-054-8
Writing for the Medium: Television in Transition
CONTENTS
General Introduction
Part 1 - Quality Television
Introduction
Television in the Age of Consensus without Sense
‘Quality’ Television
Quality Television in The Netherlands: Some Hopeful Reflections on Breaking the Taboo
On the Quality of Soap
Zapping One’s Way into Quality: Arts Programmes on TV
Definitions of Quality
Questionable Quality or the Undiscoverable Quality of Television
Part 2 - Literature on Television
Introduction
The Novelist and Television Drama
On Achieving Good Television
Speaking to Nations
Television and Literature
Literature after Television: Author, Authority, Authenticity
Unwritable Films, Unfilmable Texts?
Part 3 - Science on Television
Introduction
Gee-Wizards of the Box?
Science on Television
On Being God and Darwin
Citizen Scientist or A Dinosaur for All Seasons?
Science and Technology on TV: Four European Countries Compared
Selected Bibliography
The Contributors
The Editors
Film Culture in Transition: on the series
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