Television and British Cinema [electronic resource] : Convergence and Divergence Since 1990 /
Andrews, Hannah.author.
Undertaking a thorough and timely investigation of the relationship between television and cinema in Britain since 1990, Hannah Andrews explores the convergence between the two forms, at industrial, cultural and intermedial levels, and the ways in which the media have also been distinguished from one another through discourse and presentation.
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Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; A Note on FilmFour; Introduction: The Contexts of Convergence; Unknown cinemas and lost continents: Locating television in British cinema studies; Quality in broadcasting: Public service brands and 'Cinematic' television; Convergence: A new media discourse?; Convergence and divergence in British cinema and television; Part I: Convergence/Divergence: The Relations between Television and Film at the End of the Analogue Era; 1 Film and Television Drama: The Making of a Relationship
Film and television production: From telecine to television filmsDavid Rose, English Regions Drama and Channel 4's department of fiction; Conclusion; 2 Television as Film, Film as Television: Broadcasting Cinema in the 1990s; Film 4 Today: Re-broadcasting, re-branding; Broadcasting art cinema: Channel 4 and Derek Jarman; Four Weddings and a Funeral as a television event; Conclusion; 3 Commercialism and Quality: Television Institutions and the British Film Industry, 1998-2002; 'More than a Television Channel': Institutional restructuring and commercialism
Bigger than what? Television and the British film industryHollywood and Europuddings: International co-production; A 'Cultural Burden'? Evaluating publicly subsidized film; Two FilmFour failures; Conclusion; Part II Convergence and Divergence in the Digital Age; 4 Digital Departures: Television Institutions and Low-Budget Production; The FilmFour Lab: Digital experiments; Film4 and Warp X: Outsourcing experimentation; BBC Films and micro-budget film schemes; Conclusion; 5 'Great Films You Know, Great Films You Don't': The Birth and Life of the FilmFour Digital Channel
'A Different Sort of Film Channel': The opening night simulcast of FilmFour on Channel 4'Classic films, cult films, foreign films'? FilmFour channel survey; Conclusion; 6 New Logics of Convergence: Film through Online Television; Databasing and interfacing: Film on iPlayer; Showcasing new British filmmaking on the BBC Film Network; Conclusion; 7 Conclusion: Convergence and Divergence Now; Convergence and divergence now; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Undertaking a thorough and timely investigation of the relationship between television and cinema in Britain since 1990, Hannah Andrews explores the convergence between the two forms, at industrial, cultural and intermedial levels, and the ways in which the media have also been distinguished from one another through discourse and presentation.
Motion pictures and television.
Motion pictures—History.
Motion pictures—Great Britain.
Film genres.
Motion pictures—Production and direction.
Screen Studies.
Film History.
British Cinema and TV.
Genre.
Directing.