Australia on the Small Screen, 1970-1995 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Australia on the Small Screen, 1970-1995 write by Scott Murray. This book was released on 1996. Australia on the Small Screen, 1970-1995 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This major new reference work, produced in association with the Australian Film Commission, covers the last quarter of a century of Australian film-making for television. It includes 414 films made specifically for television, some of which have to date appeared only on video. 150 mini-series as opposed to long-running drama series are also covered, including famous mini-series such as Bodyline, A Town Like Alice, and The Cowra Breakout.Australia on the Small Screen, with an introduction by the author, Scott Murray, is divided into two parts, covering television films and mini-series. Where available, the following information is given: year of production, length, rating, production details, financial backing, director, producer, scriptwriter, editor, composer, costume designer, sound editor, cinematographer, and full cast details. Each entry ends with a synopsis. Many of the works are illustrated.Here then is a comprehensive reference to two immensely popular and creative forms, and an attractive companion to Australian Film, 1978-1994.
Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995
Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995 write by Scott Murray. This book was released on 1996. Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The A to Z of Australian Radio and Television
The A to Z of Australian Radio and Television - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The A to Z of Australian Radio and Television write by Albert Moran. This book was released on 2009-08-04. The A to Z of Australian Radio and Television available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Australians have become increasingly visible outside of the country as speakers and actors in radio and television, their media moguls have frequently bought up foreign companies, and people around the world have been able to enjoy such Australian productions as The Flying Doctors, Neighbours, and Kath and Kim. The origins, early development, and later adaptations of radio and television show how Australia has gone from being a minor and rather parochial player to being a significant part of the international scene. The A to Z of Australian Radio and Television provides essential facts and information concerning the Australian radio and television industry. This is accomplished through the use of a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on directors, producers, writers, actors, television and radio series, and television and radio stations.
Creating Australian Television Drama
Creating Australian Television Drama - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Creating Australian Television Drama write by Susan Lever. This book was released on 2020-11-13. Creating Australian Television Drama available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Television drama has been the dominant form of popular storytelling for more than sixty years, shaping the imaginations of millions of people. This book surveys the careers of the central creators of those stories for Australian television—the writers who learnt how to work in a new medium, adapting to its constraints and exploring its creative possibilities. Informed by interviews with many writers, it describes the establishment of Australian television drama production, observing the way writers grasped the creative and business opportunities that television presented. It examines the development of Australian versions of the major television genres—the sitcom, the police drama, the historical series, docudrama, and social drama— presenting a ‘canon’ of significant Australian television drama productions that deserve to be remembered. It offers an account of the emergence of work by Indigenous writers for television and it argues for the consideration of television drama alongside histories of Australian film and stage drama. ‘For years, Susan Lever has been talking to Australia’s best television writers about their work, their craft and their industry. Now it’s all here in this book; a toast to a vital part of Australian culture.’ – Geoffrey Atherden ‘This is a wonderful book. Meticulously researched and engagingly written, it tells in fascinating detail, from the writers’ points of view, the story of Australian scripted television from its beginnings in the 1950’s, to the present. Better yet, Susan Lever has allowed the writers themselves to speak about the work, about their visions and processes, their joys and frustrations. I am delighted to see television drama, docudrama and comedy acknowledged so generously for their role in Australian culture.’ – Sue Smith ‘Brilliantly researched, lucid, comprehensive … the big picture on writers for the small screen in Australia.’ – Ian David
The Age of Melodramatic Miniseries
The Age of Melodramatic Miniseries - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Age of Melodramatic Miniseries write by Scott Humphries. This book was released on 2023-03-17. The Age of Melodramatic Miniseries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Glamour, power, champagne breakfasts in satin sheets--welcome to television's most dazzling and overlooked genre: women-centric melodrama miniseries of the 1980s and 1990s. Decades before Real Housewives, rags-to-riches fantasies depicting strong women overcoming tragedy to take charge of their destinies were a big hit with TV audiences. Reflecting the "greed is good" ethos of the day and encoded with feminist messaging, these glitzy, often camp stories depicted statuesque superwomen facing off with square-jawed men in boardrooms and bedrooms. This book explores the shows that epitomized the prime-time soap era and gave us such memorable scenes as Stefanie Powers trading lovers with her twin sister, Joan Collins fighting Nazis in haute couture and Phoebe Cates demanding, "Which one of you bitches is my mother?"
