Television Policy: The MacTaggart Lectures

Bob Franklin

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2005

Television Policy

The MacTaggart Lectures

Bob Franklin

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474468268

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Television Policy offers a unique and authoritative account of the major developments in television programming and policy since 1976 by collecting in a single volume the MacTaggart lectures delivered at the Edinburgh International Television Festival across the last quarter of a century. The MacTaggart lecturers include the most celebrated and distinguished programme makers, producers, performers, playwrights, policymakers and senior media executives across all sectors of broadcasting. They include Greg Dyke, John Humphrys, John McGrath, Marcel Orphuls, Norman Lear, Jeremy Isaacs, John Mortimer, Peter Jay, Ted Turner, Jonathan Miller, Denis Foreman, John Schlesinger, Troy Kennedy-Martin, Philip Whitehead, Christine Ockrent, Rupert Murdoch, Verity Lambert, David Elstein, Michael Grade, Dennis Potter, Janet Street Porter, John Birt, Laurence Marks, Maurice Gran, Peter Bazalgette, Richard Eyre, David Liddiment and Mark Thompson.

With a Foreword by John Willis and an introductory essay exploring the history of the MacTaggart lectures and a review of the shifting themes and concerns of the lectures, the book provides a forum for the significant debates which have helped to shape both television content and policy across twenty five years of considerable and unprecedented change in broadcasting. Topics covered include the future of public service programming; the relationship of government to broadcasters; the impact of ownership on the freedom of broadcasters; and debates about whether and how television should be regulated.

Television Policy is essential reading for all students of media and communication studies as well as those interested in reading accounts of television programming and policy written by some of the most eloquent, eminent but contentious figures in television broadcasting.

Key Features

The first collection of the prestigious MacTaggart Lectures
A unique insight into the development of television programming across 25 years
Authoritative and eloquent analyses of television policy
Critical assessment of the contribution of the MacTaggart Lectures to current policy debates
Insider accounts of the development and future of Public Service Broadcasting.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Foreword Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Bob Franklin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
The James MacTaggart Lectures
TV Drama: The Case against Naturalism John McGrath Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
Naturalism and Television Marcel Ophuls Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
Taboos in Television Norman Lear Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
Signposting Television in the 1980s: The Fourth Television Channel Jeremy Isaacs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
Television Drama, Censorship and the Truth John Mortimer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
The Day after Tomorrow: The Future of Electronic Publishing Peter Jay Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
The Primacy of Programmes in the Future of Broadcasting Denis Forman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
Reflections on Working in Film and Television John Schlesinger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
‘Opening up the Fourth Front’: Micro Drama and the Rejection of Naturalism Troy Kennedy Martin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
Power and Pluralism in Broadcasting Phillip Whitehead Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
Ethics, Broadcasting and Change: The French Experience Christine Ockrent Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
Freedom in Broadcasting Rupert Murdoch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
Deregulation and Quality Television Verity Lambert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
The Future of Television: Market Forces and Social Values David Elstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
The Future of the BBC Michael Grade Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
Occupying Powers Dennis Potter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
A Culture of Dependency: Power, Politics and Broadcasters Greg Dyke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
Talent versus Television Janet Street-Porter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
A Glorious Future: Quality Broadcasting in the Digital Age John Birt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
Rewarding Creative Talent: The Struggle of the Independents Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
Television versus the People Peter Bazalgette Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
Public-Interest Broadcasting: A New Approach Richard Eyre Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
A Time for Change Greg Dyke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
The Soul of British Television David Liddiment Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
Television’s Creative Deficit Mark Thompson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
Freedom of Choice: Public-Service Broadcasting and the BBC Tony Ball Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
First Do No Harm John Humphrys Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
Appendix A Edinburgh International Television Festival, 29 August–2 September 1977: Programme Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
Appendix B Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 304
Keywords: Film, Media & Cultural Studies

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Published: May 4, 2005
ISBN: 9781474468268