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The chapters in this book, and the editors’ introductions that we have supplied, locate the production, aesthetic strategies and critical reception of British television drama in relation to the histories of television and of critical discourses about the medium. Programmes and the interpretations that can be made of them are vitally shaped and conditioned by their specific institutional and technological contexts. Our professional contributors draw on their experience within the television industry, and on discourses of evaluation that they explicitly or implicitly inherit, resist and transform. Our academic contributors adopt methodologies within the discipline of television studies that emphasise institutional frameworks, production technologies and concerns to evaluate how programmes can be read. Their concerns are remarkably consonant, and together they provide new perspectives on British television from the 1960s to the present, and project possible futures.
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See J. Caughie, ‘Before the Golden Age: Early Television Drama’, in J. Corner (ed.), Popular Television in Britain (London: British Film Institute, 1991), pp. 22–41
H. Wheatley (ed.), Re-viewing Television History: Critical Issues in Television Historiography (London: I. B. Tauris, 2007).
On relationships with the USA, see for example J. Bignell, ‘Transatlantic Spaces: Production, Location and Style in 1960s–70s Action-adventure TV Series’, Media History, 16:1 (2010), 53–65
S. Knox, ‘Masterpiece Theatre and British Drama Imports on US Television: Discourses of Tension’, Critical Studies in Television, 7:1 (2012), 29–48
E. Weissmann, Transnational Television Drama: Special Relations and Mutual Influence between the US and UK (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).
J. Bignell and A. Fickers (eds), A European Television History (New York: Blackwell, 2008).
See J. Jacobs and S. Peacock (eds), TV Aesthetics and Style (London: Bloomsbury, 2013)
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J. Jacobs, ‘Television Aesthetics: An Infantile Disorder’, Journal of British Cinema and Television, 3:1 (2006), 19–33.
M. Hills, Triumph of a Time Lord: Regenerating Doctor Who in the Twenty-first Century (London: I. B. Tauris, 2010)
N. Perryman, ‘Doctor Who and the Convergence of Media: A Case Study in Transmedia Storytelling’, Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 14:1 (2008), 21–39.
H. Jenkins, Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide (New York University Press, 2008); G. Creeber and M. Hills, ‘Editorial — TV III: Into, or Towards, a New Television Age’, New Review of Film and Television Studies, 5:1 (2007), 1–4.
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Bignell, J., Lacey, S. (2014). Conclusion. In: Bignell, J., Lacey, S. (eds) British Television Drama. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137327581_21
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