The Quiz Show / / Su Holmes.

GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748627530');Despite its enduring popularity with both broadcasters and audiences, the quiz show has found itself marginalised in studies of popular television. This book offers a unique introduction to the study of the quiz show, while also revisiting...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2008
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:TV Genres : TVG
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Physical Description:1 online resource (192 p.) :; 3 B/W illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: Game On
  • 1 Genre and the Quiz Show
  • 2 Quiz Show Histories
  • 3 Quiz Show Theory: Approaching the Programme Text
  • 4 Knowledge in the Quiz Show
  • 5 The Quiz Show and ‘Ordinary’ People as Television Performers
  • 6 ‘Asking the Audience’: Quiz Shows and Their Viewers
  • Conclusion: ‘Not the Final Answer . . .’
  • Bibliography
  • Index