Search Results - "British television"

Queer British television: policy and practice, 1997-2007 by Edwards, Natalie

“…Focusing primarily on the decade following Blair’s installation as Prime Minister, this project examines a variety of gay, lesbian and queer-themed British television programmes in the context of their political, cultural and industrial determinants, with the goal of bridging the gap between the cultural product and the institutional factors which precipitated its creation. …”
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What were the logistics of adaptation production on British television in the 1980s and 1990s, as demonstrated by Granada's "Sherlock Holmes" series (1984-1994)? by Gardner, Denise

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Competing value orientations within a Dutch daily newspaper and a British television station: the micro-dynamics of cultural hybridisation by Ybema, S., Daymon, Christine, Veenswijk, M.

“…The study examines how members of an established Dutch newspaper and a relatively new British television station deal with their increasingly commercialised working environments. …”
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Don Taylor, the ‘old-fashioned populist’? The Theban Plays (1986) and Iphigenia at Aulis (1990): production choices and audience responses by Fotheringham, L.S.

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Acting for Auntie: from studio realism to location realism in BBC television drama, 1953-2008 by Hewett, Richard

“…How these factors have intersected and combined to affect performance provides the key to this study of British television acting over the last six decades.…”
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Investigating a Cross-Cultural Mystery: The Reception of British Detective Dramas by an American Audience by Carey, Joanna

“…It addresses a gap in critical knowledge of American audiences' reception of British media through a focus on the responses of a selected audience to a questionnaire and interview as well as an analysis of a separate audience's group discussions on British television programming. The majority of the dissertation is an analysis of this empirical data which is further contextualised within a consideration of the marketing and promotion of these programmes in the press and in relation to the British tourist industry and concepts of heritage.…”
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Character, Audience Agency and Trans-Media Drama by Evans, Elizabeth

“…By exploring audience attitudes towards character in the British television series Spooks and its associated online games, this article argues that in an increasingly converged media landscape audiences transfer values between platforms. …”
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SUBTLEX-UK: a new and improved word frequency database for British English by van Heuven, Walter J.B., Mandera, Pawel, Keuleers, Emmanuel, Brysbaert, Marc

“…We present word frequencies based on subtitles of British television programmes. We show that the SUBTLEX-UK word frequencies explain more of the variance in the lexical decision times of the British Lexicon Project than the word frequencies based on the British National Corpus and the SUBTLEX-US frequencies. …”
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From book to stage to screen: semiotic transformations of Gothic horror genre conventions by Tan, Sabine, Wignell, P., O'Halloran, K.

“…In order to demonstrate how each performance medium has produced its own unique set of foregrounding devices to enthral and captivate audiences, a comparative analysis of excerpts from the novel The Woman in Black by Susan Hill, a videotaped theatrical performance, and the 1989 British television film of the same name is undertaken. …”
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Trading Auntie: the exploitation and protection of intellectual property rights during the BBC’s monopoly years by Johnson, Catherine

“…Most histories of British television date the emergence of a trade in programming to the mid- to late-1950s when recording technologies turned previously ephemeral programmes into exchangeable goods and ITV brought a commercial impetus to British broadcasting. …”
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‘Show us your moves’: trade rituals of television marketing by Grainge, Paul, Johnson, Catherine

“…The purpose of this paper is to examine the professional culture of television marketing in the UK, the sector of arts marketing responsible for the vast majority of programme trailers and channel promos seen on British television screens. In research approach, it draws on participant observation at Promax UK, the main trade conference and award ceremony of the television marketing community. …”
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Essays in applied economics by Nieto Castro, Adrian

“…I identify a causal effect by using a natural experiment that consists in the staggered introduction of the digital television signal in the British television market. The digital switchover leads to an increase in the time that individuals watch television and a drop in the viewing shares of the traditional channels. …”
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Online Distribution of English-Language TV in Mainland China by Zhang, Xiaoran

“…This thesis first examines the streaming services themselves, studying distribution practices for American and British television series to understand the logic behind the localization of the business practices surrounding transnational television and to illustrate the features streaming services adopt to cater to online audiences based on local streaming consumption habits. …”
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Tea for twelve: police intervention animations and their impact on jury decision making in sexual offence cases by Pennington, Amanda

“…One hundred and fifty participants were provided online questionnaires and divided into conditions where they either watched the Thames Valley Police “Tea and Consent” anti-rape animation or the COVID-19 British televised advert, then presented with a three-minute clip of a fictional rape trial. …”
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