The Quiz Show

Su Holmes

• Editorial: EUP
• Año: 2008
• ISBN:
  9780748631575
• Edición: 1
• Categoría: Media & Performing Arts
• Categoría: Television History & Criticism

Despite its enduring popularity with both broadcasters and audiences, the quiz show has found itself marginalised in studies of popular television. This book offers a unique introduction to the study of the quiz show, while also revisiting, updating and expanding on existing quiz show scholarship. Ranging across programmes such as Double Your Money, The $64,000 Dollar Question, Twenty-One, The Price is Right, Who Wants to be a Millionaire and The Weakest Link to the controversial 'Quiz TV Call' phenomenon, the book explores programmes with a focus on question and answer. Topics covered include the relationship between quiz shows and television genre; the early broadcast history of the quiz show; questions of institutional regulation; quiz show aesthetics; the social significance of 'games'; 'ordinary' people as television performers, and questions of quiz show reception (from interactivity to on-line fandom). Key Features*Represents one of few book-length studies of the quiz show*Offers an accessible introduction to the genre for undergraduate students*Draws upon new archival research in order to contribute to knowledge about the early history of the quiz show*Demonstrates why the quiz show matters to Television Studies*Brings together key approaches in the field with new interventions and areas of study (such as the quiz show in the multi-platform age, and the study of 'ordinary' people as performers).

Índice

• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Figures
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: Game On
• 1. Genre and the Quiz Show
• 2. Quiz Show Histories
• 3. Quiz Show Theory: Approaching the Programme Text
• 4. Knowledge in the Quiz Show
• 5. The Quiz Show and 'Ordinary' People as Television Performers
• 6. 'Asking the Audience': Quiz Shows and Their Viewers
• Conclusion: 'Not the Final Answer . . .'
• Bibliography
• Index