Values and Choices in Television Discourse: A View from Both Sides of the Screen

by Roberta Piazza (Editor)

PART I
Introduction to Part I - The Analysis of the Television Product; Roberta Piazza and Louann Haarman
1. Promotional What Do They Tell Us About the Value of News?; Monika Bednarek and Helen Caple
2. Evaluation as Positioning in English Language World News Channels; Alison Duguid
3. Overweight and Obesity in Television News; Catriona Bonfiglioli
4. Camera Angles in Television Designed to Communicate?; Scott Koga-Browes
5. The Representation of Travellers in Television Dispelling Stigma While Dealing with Infotainment Demands; Roberta Piazza
6. Television, Collective Memory and the Commemoration Cure; Nuria Lorenzo-Dus
7. Cooking Competition across Cultures; Louann Haarman
PART II
Introduction to Part II - What''s Behind the Screen?; Hilary Bruffell and Anne Caborn
8. What Makes the News Position and Priority as Considerations in the Channel 4 News Jon Snow, C4
9. News as Political Commitment and Observations on Obesity; Cathy Newman, C4
10. How Audiences Shape News Angles; Luke Chilton, News Desk, This Morning
11. It''s Not a Disaster if it Doesn''t Make the News - The Critical Nature of News Positioning; Clive Jones, DEC
12. Commercial Imperatives and their Impact on the Values of the Contemporary Documentary and Reality Formats;Peter Hamilton, documentary consultant
13. Documentary Making - A Commercial and Public Broadcaster Perspective;Olivia Lichtenstein, documentary maker
14. Competition and Cookery in a Global Cultural Format;Karen Ross and Doug Wood of Shine TV
15. The Morals of the Money Shot - The Journalistic and Personal Perspective on Creating a Porn Documentary for Channel 4; Martin Daubney, journalist
16. Authenticity in Documentary Making;Anya Sitaram, Rockhopper TV
17. Documentary and Reality TV as Modern Fairytales - An Odyssey in Character, Content and Commissioning;Jan Euden and Mick Sawyer, Reeljem Productions
18. The Interplay between Conflict and Character in Drama and its Possible Influences on the Construction of Reality Programming; Harry Duffin, author and scriptwriter

272 pages, Paperback

First published August 12, 2015