The Nationwide Television Studies

by Charlotte Brunsdon, David Morley

Overview

This book brings together for the first time David Morley and Charlotte Brunsdon's classic texts, Everyday Television: Nationwide and The Nationwide Audience. Originally published in 1978 and 1980 these two research projects combine innovative textual readings and audience analysis of the BBC's current affairs programme Nationwide. In a specially written introduction the authors trace the history of the original Nationwide project and clarify the origins of the two books.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134751624
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/15/2005
Series:	Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	340
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

David Morley is Professor of Communications at Goldsmiths College, London. Charlotte Brunsdon teaches film and television at the University of Warwick.

Table of Contents

Introduction (1997) PART I Everyday Television: Nationwide (1978) CHARLOTTE BRUNSDONDAVID MORLEY 1 Going Nationwide 2 The World of Nationwide Discourse 1975–7 3 Linking and Framing: Nationwide in Action 19/5/76 4 ‘A nation of families…’ PART II The Nationwide Audience: Structure and Decoding (1980) DAVID MORLEY 1 Audience Research: The Traditional Paradigms 2 ‘What people do with the media’: Uses, Gratifications, Meanings 3 Classes, Codes, Correspondences 4 Problems of Technique and Method 5 Responses to Nationwide 6 Comparative Analysis of Differential Group Decodings 7 Decoding Television: Theorising Determinations PART III Responses

Editorial Reviews

Reprints in a single volume (1978) and (1980) published by the British Film Institute as part of its series. They deal with Nationwide, an early evening television news program on BBC 1, particularly with a single edition on 19 May 1976. The first is a detailed textual reading of the program. The second reports the findings of audience research in which the same edition was shown to a range of different audience groups for discussion. The history of the research that generated the two has been cited often in subsequent media studies, but they are long out of print and the references to them are becoming less accurate as they become more generations removed from the original source. Five responses are included. Page numbering and indexing have been combined; bibliographies remain separate. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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