Spectacular television : exploring televisual pleasure
- Submitting institution
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The University of Warwick
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 10096
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- London ; New York
- ISBN
- 9781780767369
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This monograph is double weighted for its detailed exploration of the visual pleasures of spectacle across UK and US television history. While the turn to digital technologies has highlighted the issue of spectacle, the book argues that visual pleasure has always been part of the competitive strategy of television, offering a history of key exemplars. The book combines the historical and the meta-critical, sustaining a scholarly intervention that challenges some of the critical commonplaces of television studies – notably the distracted viewer and the lack of focus on (tele)visual pleasure. It won the BAFTSS ‘Monograph of the Year’ award (2016).
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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