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British Youth Television: Transnational Teens, Industry, Genre
In this book, Faye Woods explores the raucous, cheeky, intimate voice of British youth television. This is the first study of a complete television system targeting teens and twenty somethings, chronicling a period of significant industrial change in the early 21st century. British Youth Television offers a snapshot of the complexities of contemporary television from a British standpoint — youth-focused programming that blossomed in the commercial expansion of the digital era, yet indelibly shaped by public service broadcasting, and now finding its feet on proliferating platforms. Considering BBC Three, My Mad Fat Diary, The Inbetweeners, Our War and Made in Chelsea, amongst others; Woods identifies a television that is defiantly British, yet also has a complex transatlantic relationship with US teen TV. This book creates a space for British voices in an academic and cultural landscape dominated by the American teenager.


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British Youth Television: Transnational Teens, Industry, Genre
In this book, Faye Woods explores the raucous, cheeky, intimate voice of British youth television. This is the first study of a complete television system targeting teens and twenty somethings, chronicling a period of significant industrial change in the early 21st century. British Youth Television offers a snapshot of the complexities of contemporary television from a British standpoint — youth-focused programming that blossomed in the commercial expansion of the digital era, yet indelibly shaped by public service broadcasting, and now finding its feet on proliferating platforms. Considering BBC Three, My Mad Fat Diary, The Inbetweeners, Our War and Made in Chelsea, amongst others; Woods identifies a television that is defiantly British, yet also has a complex transatlantic relationship with US teen TV. This book creates a space for British voices in an academic and cultural landscape dominated by the American teenager.


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British Youth Television: Transnational Teens, Industry, Genre

British Youth Television: Transnational Teens, Industry, Genre

by Faye Woods
British Youth Television: Transnational Teens, Industry, Genre

British Youth Television: Transnational Teens, Industry, Genre

by Faye Woods

Overview

In this book, Faye Woods explores the raucous, cheeky, intimate voice of British youth television. This is the first study of a complete television system targeting teens and twenty somethings, chronicling a period of significant industrial change in the early 21st century. British Youth Television offers a snapshot of the complexities of contemporary television from a British standpoint — youth-focused programming that blossomed in the commercial expansion of the digital era, yet indelibly shaped by public service broadcasting, and now finding its feet on proliferating platforms. Considering BBC Three, My Mad Fat Diary, The Inbetweeners, Our War and Made in Chelsea, amongst others; Woods identifies a television that is defiantly British, yet also has a complex transatlantic relationship with US teen TV. This book creates a space for British voices in an academic and cultural landscape dominated by the American teenager.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781137445476
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date: 09/09/2016
Edition description: 1st ed. 2016
Pages: 267
Product dimensions: 5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Faye Woods is Lecturer in Film and Television at the University of Reading, UK. Her research interests include youth representations, feminist media studies and television industries. Her work has appeared in a range of journals as well as the edited collections Television Aesthetics and Style and Multiplicities: Cycles, Sequels, Remakes and Reboots in Film & Television.

Table of Contents

Section 1: Framing.- 1. Made in Britain: Mapping British Youth Television.- 2. Branding Youth Space: British Youth Strands and Channels.- Section 2: Fiction.- 3. British Youth Drama: Space, place, authenticity and intimacy.- 4. Teen TV Translations: Across The Pond.- Section 3: Factual.- 5. Youth Factual: First Person, Peer Address and Interaction.- 6. Structured Reality: Designer Clothes, Fake Tans, Real Drama?.- 7. Conclusion: A Short-form future?.- Notes.- Bibliography

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“In British Youth Television: Transnational Teens, Industry, Genre, Faye Woods weaves together incisive close televisual readings with insightful considerations of larger industrial and transcultural contexts. Woods’ sustained merger of aesthetic, ideological, cultural, and industrial analyses provides a vital contribution to the field of youth media studies.” (Louisa Ellen Stein, Middlebury College)

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