Creativity, Culture and Commerce
Subtitle: Producing Australian Children's Television with Public Value
Publisher: Intellect
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Bristol
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9781783204427; 9781783204410; 9781783204434
Subjects: Children's television programs; Mass media and children; Television and children; Émissions télévisées pour enfants; Médias et enfants; Télévision et enfants; PSYCHOLOGY; Social Psychology; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS; Industries; Media & Communications; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING; Telecommunications; Barnprogram i tv; Barn och tv
Description: Since the late 1970s, Australia has nurtured a creative and resilient children's television production sector with a global reputation for excellence. Creativity, Culture and Commerce explores the creative, economic, regulatory and technological factors shaping the production of contemporary Australian children's television for digital regimes. Charting the complex new settlements in children's television that developed from 2001-2014, the book investigates the challenges inherent in producing culturally specific content for global markets.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1: Understanding Children's Television During the Digital Transition; Chapter 2: Shaping the Foundations: Establishing an Australian Children's Television Production Industry; Chapter 3: A Very Special Audience: Children and Television; Chapter 4: The National Context: Australian Broadcasters, Children's Television and Public Value; Chapter 5: It's a Small World After All: The Internationalization of Australian Children's Television; Plates.; title: Chapter 6: Policing the Settlement: Policy and Public Value in Children's TelevisionChapter 7: Producing Children's Television for Digital Regimes: Case Studies from the Production Sector; Chapter 8: New Settlements in Children's Television: Key Trendsand Future Outlook; References; Index; Back Cover.