Jane Roscoe
Biographic Data
| ID | 3688027 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jane Roscoe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jane |
| FAMILY NAME | Roscoe |
| SIGNATURE | ROSCOE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Outside and inside television
This is an exchange on questions of value from two distinct but overlapping perspectives on television. Among other things, it looks at the differences between academic and industry approaches to questions of quality and value and the way in which these approaches are changing. In what ways does the upsurge in production studies promise improved understanding and how is this growth connected with the traditions of textual and audience research? H…
Television
Interview with Peter Abbott
The New Documentary Dispensation
Big Brother Australia
Big Brother is a hybrid format that is both innovative and engaging and, as such, warrants critical attention. In an attempt to move the debate beyond discussions of ‘tabloidization’ and narratives of decline, this paper examines Big Brother in terms of the production strategies, textual innovations and the various ways in which audiences are able to interact with this media event. It is argued here that Big Brother is an important precursor to f…
New Television Formats
Real Entertainment
Popular factual entertainment has changed the face of broadcasting in Australia. Where once dramas, long-running serials and current affairs programs filled prime-time scehdules, we now have docu-soaps such as Popstars, and reality gameshows like Big Brother. While some have expressed concern about this shift to light entertainment in factual programming, it can be argued that such programs have brought a new audience to non-fiction and revitalis…
Documenting the Immigrant Nation
Within contemporary New Zealand the political climate is such that market forces tend to be privileged over any social or cultural mandates. This has resulted in a deregulated broadcasting context in which three of the five free-to-air channels are operated as State Owned Enterprises (SOEs), with the remaining two operating as independent commercial operations. However, within this deregulated broadcasting context, there is an attempt to maintain…
Mocking silver
(1997). Mocking silver: Re‐inventing the documentary project (or, Grierson lies bleeding) Continuum: Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 67-82
The Television Audience
This paper addresses recent debates concerning the conceptualization of the television audience and the viewing context. It re-examines concepts that have acquired `commonsense' status within media studies, for example, `active', `social', `context' and `critical'. These concepts are discussed in relation to illustrative extracts from audience discussions of the drama-documentary, Who Bombed Birmingham? Twelve group discussions were carried out f…
The Television Audience
This paper addresses recent debates concerning the conceptualization of the television audience and the viewing context. It re-examines concepts that have acquired `commonsense' status within media studies, for example, `active', `social', `context' and `critical'. These concepts are discussed in relation to illustrative extracts from audience discussions of the drama-documentary, Who Bombed Birmingham? Twelve group discussions were carried out f…
Big Brother Australia
Big Brother is a hybrid format that is both innovative and engaging and, as such, warrants critical attention. In an attempt to move the debate beyond discussions of ‘tabloidization’ and narratives of decline, this paper examines Big Brother in terms of the production strategies, textual innovations and the various ways in which audiences are able to interact with this media event. It is argued here that Big Brother is an important precursor to f…
Documenting the Immigrant Nation
Within contemporary New Zealand the political climate is such that market forces tend to be privileged over any social or cultural mandates. This has resulted in a deregulated broadcasting context in which three of the five free-to-air channels are operated as State Owned Enterprises (SOEs), with the remaining two operating as independent commercial operations. However, within this deregulated broadcasting context, there is an attempt to maintain…
Outside and inside television
This is an exchange on questions of value from two distinct but overlapping perspectives on television. Among other things, it looks at the differences between academic and industry approaches to questions of quality and value and the way in which these approaches are changing. In what ways does the upsurge in production studies promise improved understanding and how is this growth connected with the traditions of textual and audience research? H…
Real Entertainment
Popular factual entertainment has changed the face of broadcasting in Australia. Where once dramas, long-running serials and current affairs programs filled prime-time scehdules, we now have docu-soaps such as Popstars, and reality gameshows like Big Brother. While some have expressed concern about this shift to light entertainment in factual programming, it can be argued that such programs have brought a new audience to non-fiction and revitalis…
Television
The Television Audience
This paper addresses recent debates concerning the conceptualization of the television audience and the viewing context. It re-examines concepts that have acquired `commonsense' status within media studies, for example, `active', `social', `context' and `critical'. These concepts are discussed in relation to illustrative extracts from audience discussions of the drama-documentary, Who Bombed Birmingham? Twelve group discussions were carried out f…
Mocking silver
(1997). Mocking silver: Re‐inventing the documentary project (or, Grierson lies bleeding) Continuum: Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 67-82
Documenting the Immigrant Nation
Within contemporary New Zealand the political climate is such that market forces tend to be privileged over any social or cultural mandates. This has resulted in a deregulated broadcasting context in which three of the five free-to-air channels are operated as State Owned Enterprises (SOEs), with the remaining two operating as independent commercial operations. However, within this deregulated broadcasting context, there is an attempt to maintain…
Big Brother Australia
Big Brother is a hybrid format that is both innovative and engaging and, as such, warrants critical attention. In an attempt to move the debate beyond discussions of ‘tabloidization’ and narratives of decline, this paper examines Big Brother in terms of the production strategies, textual innovations and the various ways in which audiences are able to interact with this media event. It is argued here that Big Brother is an important precursor to f…
New Television Formats
Real Entertainment
Popular factual entertainment has changed the face of broadcasting in Australia. Where once dramas, long-running serials and current affairs programs filled prime-time scehdules, we now have docu-soaps such as Popstars, and reality gameshows like Big Brother. While some have expressed concern about this shift to light entertainment in factual programming, it can be argued that such programs have brought a new audience to non-fiction and revitalis…
Interview with Peter Abbott
The New Documentary Dispensation
Television
Outside and inside television
This is an exchange on questions of value from two distinct but overlapping perspectives on television. Among other things, it looks at the differences between academic and industry approaches to questions of quality and value and the way in which these approaches are changing. In what ways does the upsurge in production studies promise improved understanding and how is this growth connected with the traditions of textual and audience research? H…
Sociology (9 works) · Media studies (7 works) · Media Studies and Communication (7 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Advertising (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Business (3 works)