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The Quiz Show
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ISBN10: 0748627537
ISBN13: 9780748627530
Publisher: Edinburgh Univ Pr
Published: Oct 14 2008
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780748627530
Publisher: Edinburgh Univ Pr
Published: Oct 14 2008
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
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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