Thursday 29 November 2007

http://www.quahog5news.com/

This is the website for family guy and i have used it for much of my general overview of tv drama. It include lots of articles clips, and also many images of which i have been studying through to gain a better understanding of this section of the industry.

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Prison Break

http://community.tvguide.com/blog-entry/TVGuide-Editors-Blog/Ausiello-Report/Prison-Break-Exclusive/800024014

Again good news and info on all aspects, plus lots of reviews and comments.


Ross

http://www.channel4.com/entertainment/tv/microsites/H/hollyoaks/

This is the official homepage for Hollyoaks for fans, it gives news, information aboutt he cast etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollyoaks

This is the wikipedia site for hollyoaks and has all the background info on it. It also has the information about what issues and storylines that have been used in the show.
Jessie Brewer

Prison Break

http://www.prisonbreak-online.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=363

Good website referencing every season, with info, reviews and spoilers, also behind the scenes photos and cast info. Very helpful depending what part you are going to look at.

Ross

The OC...teen drama

Source Citation:"Weekender: PRISCILLA KWATENGS: GUIDE TO YOUTH." The Guardian (London, England) (April 17, 2004): 7. InfoTrac Full Text Newspapers Database. Gale. Long Road VI Form College. 29 Nov. 2007
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Farhana

Wednesday 28 November 2007

Article on Shameless

Media magazine
April 2006
Issue 16
'Shameless & Proud Of It' p.23
Sally Brady

Harlee Scott

Friday 23 November 2007

AS Media Studies, The Essential Introduction - Philip Rayner, Peter Wall, Stephen Kruger
Published 2001
Coronation Street - P.100
About the opening sequence of Coronation Street and the setting.

Television, Ethnicity and Cultural Change - Marie Gillespie
Published 1995
Watching Western Soaps - P. 95
(Nieghbours mentioned)

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Television Drama: Agency, Audience & Myth - John Tulloch (Routledge 1990)
Chapter 1 - Soft News: The Space Of Tv Drama: Page 31

Television Drama: Agency, Audience and Myth - John Tulloch (Routledge 1990)
Genre and Myth: 'a half formed picture': Page 63-

Television, Audience & Cultural Studies - David Morley (Routledge 1992)
Television Audience Research: a critical history: Page 51-

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hospital drama questions:

1. who watches them?
2. what motivates them to watch them?
3. do they watch more than one?
4. do they prefer British or American?
5. how are they sold/advertised?
6. what channels do they appear on?
7. do they all follow the same conventions?
8. how do they represent real life hospitals and doctors?
9. what does a hospital drama have in common with other tv dramas?
10. how do they differ?


becky grant

References

Censorship
Lacey, Nick
- Media Institutions and Audiences, Key Concepts in Media Studies, 2002 Palgrave (page 53)

General
Hood, Stuart - Behind the Screens, The Structure of British Television in the Nineties, 1994 Lawrence & Wishart (page v)

Thursday 22 November 2007

Heroes

no books on heroes yet as it is still new in the UK, so i will have to use the internet for research and references.

Lewis Cotterill

Skins

Cult TV
by Jon. E Lewis and Penny Stempel
Publisher:Paviloin
Comedy:p230-278


Television an international history
by Anthony Smith
Publisher: Oxford
Cult TV:p102-103


Youth culture
by helena Wulff
Publisher:Routledge
Subcultures: 1-19 and 81-144

science fiction

edwards t
x-files
little brown and company
1996
page 9

its about the x-files

jon e lewis and penny stampel
cult tv
pavilion
page 10
its good for science fiction tv drama

page 187 is good for the x-man

DUB-PLATE DRAMA

My idea is based on a T.V drama 'Dub Plate Drama' which is related to Black Images on British T.V
Dubplate IS AN INTERACTIVE t.v programme where viewers vote for what's going to happenen next.

Books we've found

Anthony Smith, Television - An International History, Oxford university press, 1995

Women and soap opera, Christine Geraghty, polity press, 1991

Patricia Holland, The Television Handbook, Routledge, 1997

John Tulloch, Television Drama, Agency, audience and myth, Routledge, 1990

John Fiske, Television Culture, Routledge London and new york, 1987



Reference Number - 791.45


ROSS,HENRY,BECKY and JESSIE

Book Reference for Television Drama

John Tulloch, TELEVISION DRAMA AGENCY, AUDIENCE AND MYTH, Routledge, 1990

Contents: Part One
1 'Soft' news: the space of TV drama page 31
Part Two
4 'Serious drama': the dangerous mesh of empathy page 116

Index: TV drama: series and serials page 4-6 35 177 179