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This dissertation traces the emergence of the U.S. South and the region's role in primetime television, from the post-World War II era through Reagan's election in 1980. These early years defined, as Herman Gray suggests in Watching Race, all subsequent representations of blackness on television. This defining moment, I argue, is one inextricably tethered to the South and the region's anxiety ridden and complicated relationship with television. This anxiety was rooted in the progress and increasing visibility of the Civil Rights Movement, concern over growing white southern audiences in the wake of the FCC freeze (ended in 1952), and the fear and threat of a southern backlash against racially progressive programming. From the short-lived drama Bourbon Street Beat to the success of Andy Griffith, these concerns structured and policed the content of television, producing puzzling and often contradictory visions of the South. The representational maneuvers enacted by these shows attempted to render that threatening South safe for national consumption, while simultaneously invoking southern manners and downhome southern living as emblematic of all that is good about America. That is, the South was both the threat to the democratic nation and the cure for all that ailed a nation in crisis. In returning to the South during the formative years of primetime and at a moment where the region visibly and visually contested narratives of a democratic nation, my dissertation provides a foundation for thinking through a contemporary landscape saturated in problematically post-racial southern imagery.

In this thesis, I seek to understand what shaped the development of television, tracing the technology back to its earliest roots. In existing literature, the history of television in its formative years (before World War II), has largely been presented in technologically deterministic terms, culminating in the ‘goal’ of adding ‘sight to sound’ – producing a wireless set with pictures. Most of the existing literature focuses on ‘hero’ figures such as British inventor John Logie Baird and his electro-mechanical television systems, or on corporate narratives such as that of RCA in the United States in developing all-electronic television. In contrast to such an approach, I will concentrate on the transnational networks linking individuals and companies, and on the common external factors affecting all of them. Some networks could operate simultaneously as rivals and collaborators, as was the case with companies such as Marconi-EMI in Britain and RCA in the United States. Senior managers and researchers such as Isaac Shoenberg at Marconi-EMI and Vladimir Zworykin at RCA played significant roles, but so too did relatively obscure figures such as Russian scientist Boris Rosing and British engineer Alan A Campbell Swinton. I will draw on newly available sources from Russia and the USSR, on over-looked sources in Britain and the United States, and on replicative technology to re-examine the story. The new material, coupled with the transnational networks approach, enables fresh insights to be gained on issues of simultaneity of invention and on contingency in the development and initial deployments of the technology. By using these fresh primary sources, and by re-interpreting some aspects of the numerous existing secondary sources, I will show that the ‘wireless with pictures’ model was not inevitable, that electro-mechanical television need not have been a technical cul-de-sac, and that in Britain at least, it was the political desire to maintain and extend the monopoly of the BBC, which effectively funnelled the technology into the model so familiar to us today.

This thesis examines and assesses the development of the UK television news industry during the period 1982-1998. Its aim is to ascertain the degree to which a market for television news has developed, how such a market operates, and how it coexists with the 'public service' goals of news provision. A major purpose of the research is to investigate whether 'the market' and 'public service' requirements have to be the conceptual polarities they are commonly supposed to be in much media academic analysis of the television news genre. It has conducted such an analysis through an examination of the development strategies ofthe major news organisations of the BBC, ITN and Sky News, and an assessment of the changes that have taken place to the structure of the news industry as a whole. It places these developments within the determining contexts of Government economic policy and broadcasting regulation. The research method employed was primarily that of the in-depth interview with television news management, politicians and regulators: in other words, those instrumental in directing the strategic development within the television news industry. Its main findings are that there has indeed been a development of market activity within the television news industry, but that the amount of this activity has been limited by the particular economic attributes of the television news product. What makes the provision of television news a worthwhile venture for news organisations is the degree to which television news confers status and political legitimacy upon its provider. To this end, 'public service' programming goals continue to be present in commercial news outlets.

The approach that emphasises the active audience, and the subversive potential of audience encounters with texts, has greatly influenced the study of media fandom which has tended to see media fans, and the cultures they produce, as set in opposition to writers and producers. My thesis challenges this view of the relationships between fans and producers by examining fan-producers in contemporary television. This research challenges the influential theoretical models that see authorship as a major source of social control and thus sees audiences that 'poach' meanings from texts as engaged in rebellion. The approach that perceives fandom as in opposition to the meanings of production falls short in representing the complexity of fan and producer interactions and thus curtails our understanding of these relationships. My thesis moves beyond the untenable opposition between fans and producers and, in doing so, paves the way for an understanding of fan studies more suitable for the contemporary, and still developing, climate of audience interactions. I believe that the practices of fandom demonstrate that consumption and authorship are more closely linked than previous tendencies to divide them would suggest. Previous works have served to both underestimate fandom, as powerless rebels or dupes, or exaggerate its position as a force of political or cultural resistance. My research engages with the contemporary developments within fan culture, and emphasises the importance of deconstructing monolithic ideas of the media industry in order to better understand the influences and pressures placed on the figure of the fan-producer. I argue that the media industries are not as homogeneous as previously implied, and that the fan-producer is forced to negotiate the complex and often conflicting relationships within the worlds of both fandom and official production.

This Critical Review discusses the significance of the author’s published works and their impact on the history of the emergence of British television between 1926 and 1936. Although events in television within this period have since been well-documented, the related debates have tended to be specialist in scope and restricted to technology-centric or institution-centric viewpoints. Within this period of complex, rapid technological change, the author’s published works introduce the principle of embracing multiple disciplines for comparative analysis. The author’s application of that principle opens up long-established views for further debate and provides a re-assessment of early British television within a broader context. The rewards of this approach are a view of events that not only avoids nationalistic bias and restrictions of a single institutional viewpoint, but also tackles the complex inter-dependencies of technology, of service provision and of content creation. These published works draw attention to the revolutionary improvements that enabled the BBC’s 1936 service and the re-definition of television, yet also emphasise the significance of the previous television broadcast services. The most important innovation within these works has been the author’s discovery and in-depth study of artefacts from that earlier period. His recovery, analysis and presentation of video recordings of historic early television from 1927-1935 is original and remains unique. It has had a significant impact on the field of Media Archaeology, where Ernst considers the book Restoring Baird’s Image as a ‘seminal’ work and the overall restoration project ‘a brilliant case of “Digital Humanities” research’ (Appendix 2). The author’s curation of content from the period 1927-1935 enhances our understanding of a time where previously no direct television footage was thought to exist. The author extends his forensic-level investigative ‘hands-on’ techniques from this recovery to the analysis of the surviving artefacts from the time of John Logie Baird’s claimed first demonstration of television in 1926. The results clarify not only the functions of the equipment but also the circumstances and validity of the event, and hence its true place in the history of television.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:26:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2010-12-09Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:54:43Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 lima_ec_me_assis.pdf: 1600755 bytes, checksum: 1674e401afcd9db30e4a510a7aec7e53 (MD5) / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) / A proposta deste estudo é historiar e analisar as possibilidades de criação da primeira emissora de televisão de inspiração católica no Brasil, a Rede Vida de Televisão. Assim foram identificadas e analisadas as diretrizes comunicacionais católicas e o debate em torno da questão a partir de documentos oficiais da Igreja, de pensadores, leigos e eclesiásticos ligados a ela, entre 1989 a 1995. Procurou-se posicionar o debate católico ante os meios de comunicação social e, sobretudo, focar os olhares para o meio televisivo, identificando de que forma os pensadores e intelectuais católicos expressavam-se e debatiam sobre o tema Igreja e Mídia. A pesquisa mostra que, ao contrário do que é divulgado pela literatura especializada, a Rede Vida só foi possível ser formada pela ação de alguns poucos agentes que atuavam na interseção de dinâmicas próprias do âmbito político, do religioso e comunicacional, compreendidas durante o período de transição democrática brasileira. Buscou-se identificar os debates oriundos dos círculos católicos acerca da comunicação social, da ação política nacional e regional da chamada Nova República e da interface destas no universo de empresários da mídia regional e nacional. Por fim, remonta-se historicamente a programação inicial exibida pela Rede Vida, analisando-a em uma dupla chave: a programação religiosa e a generalista. / The purpose of this study is to chronicle and analyze the possibilities of creating the first television station in Brazil Catholic inspiration, “Rede Vida de Televisão”. So were identified and analyzed the guidelines and communication Catholic debate on the issue from official Church documents, thinkers, lay and clergy attached to it, from 1989 to 1995. It was tried to position the Catholic debate before the media and, above all, focus their eyes to the television medium, identifying how the Catholic thinkers and intellectuals expressed themselves and debating on the subject Church and Media. Research shows that, contrary to what is disclosed in the literature, “Rede Vida de Televisão” was only possible to be formed by the action of a few agents who worked at the intersection of their own dynamics of the political, religious and communication, understood during the Brazilian democratic transition. It was sought to identify the debates coming from Catholic circles about the media, the action of national and regional policy called the New Republic and the interface of these entrepreneurs in the population of the regional and national media. Finally, historically goes back to the original programming aired by Rede Vida, analyzing it in a double switch: the general and religious programming.

This thesis called "Television game shows and quiz shows in the Czech republic between 1989 - 2004" deals with the historical development of television game shows and quiz shows in the Czech republic in the first 15 years since the so- called Velvet revolution in 1989. The first, theoretical part outlines some basic terms related both to television game shows and quiz shows and to television entertainment in general. The second part summarizes television competitions in Czech TV stations in the given period from the historical point of view.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1994. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 375-391). / Microfiche. / 2 v. (xix, 391 leaves, bound) ill. 29 cm

Submitted by Aelson Maciera (aelsoncm@terra.com.br) on 2017-08-07T20:39:12Z No. of bitstreams: 1 DissCJMSJ.pdf: 869918 bytes, checksum: be5311add9b63b3791b5ff00a316b852 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Ronildo Prado (ronisp@ufscar.br) on 2017-08-09T13:38:09Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 DissCJMSJ.pdf: 869918 bytes, checksum: be5311add9b63b3791b5ff00a316b852 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Ronildo Prado (ronisp@ufscar.br) on 2017-08-09T13:38:15Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 DissCJMSJ.pdf: 869918 bytes, checksum: be5311add9b63b3791b5ff00a316b852 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-08-09T13:53:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DissCJMSJ.pdf: 869918 bytes, checksum: be5311add9b63b3791b5ff00a316b852 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-12-15 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / This research presents the investigation of the epic genre´s manifestations within Brazilian audiovisual environment having as object the miniseries A muralha (TV Globo, 2000), based on the novel A muralha (1954) by Dinah Silveira de Queiroz, written by Maria Adelaide Amaral and directed by Denise Saraceni, Carlos Araújo and Luís Henrique Rios. The intersections between the productive practices of TV Globo and the referential legacy of the epic genre in film and television fields are discussed, taking into account aspects of interculturalism and the context of the celebrations of the 500th anniversary of the discovery of Brazil, a period marked by a boom of historic telefictions and the modernization of production strategies and marketing of audiovisual works made by the television network. The work performs an approximation to the binomial TV-cinema relationship in the open television programming and how this articulated the epic genre in his schedule in primetime serial form. / Esta pesquisa apresenta a investigação das manifestações do gênero épico no âmbito do audiovisual brasileiro tendo por objeto a minissérie A muralha (TV Globo, 2000), baseada no romance A muralha (1954) de Dinah Silveira de Queiroz, escrita por Maria Adelaide Amaral e dirigida por Denise Saraceni, Carlos Araújo e Luís Henrique Rios, e supervisionada pelo produtor Daniel Filho. São discutidas as interseções entre as práticas produtivas da TV Globo e o legado referencial do gênero épico nos campos cinematográfico e televisivo, levando-se em conta aspectos da interculturalidade e o contexto das comemorações dos 500 anos do descobrimento do Brasil, período que foi marcado por um boom de teleficções históricas e pela modernização das estratégias de produção e comercialização dos produtos audiovisuais realizados pela emissora. O trabalho realiza uma aproximação ao binômio TV–cinema na programação televisiva aberta e o modo como esta articulou o gênero épico em sua grade no horário nobre na forma seriada.