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The Quiz Show
Su Holmes
- 192 pages
- English
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The Quiz Show
Su Holmes
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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).
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Table des matiĂšres
- 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