Experimental British Television
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10495243 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J Jacobs (0000-0001-8939-3354, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 370-373 |
| Publication date | 2008-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Screen (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0036-9543 • E-ISSN: 1460-2474 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/screen/hjn046 |
| OpenAlex | W2087426776 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
As Laura Mulvey notes in her introduction, ‘experimental television’ might seem to be an oxymoron but, as the essays in this fascinating collection demonstrate, the aspiration to experiment, innovate and challenge constitutes a significant dimension of television production throughout its history. Whether such aspirations were successfully fulfilled is a matter this book is less concerned with; instead we have essays that explore a range of creative ambition in television across several decades. The coverage is limited to British television from the 1960s to the late 1990s with most attention given to arts documentaries and drama. This national and generic focus is actually useful since it provides a concentrated sense of developing debates in television aesthetics. Mulvey and her coeditor Jamie Sexton have done a fine job in ordering the material so that the reader steadily accumulates a deeper understanding of the development of the relevant aesthetic discourses (and their institutional and technological contexts) that informed much of what counted as ‘experimental’
Aesthetics · Art · Dimension (graph theory · Drama · Linguistics · Media studies · Oxymoron · Sociology · Television studies · The arts · Visual arts · Cinema and Media Studies · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · History · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.44 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2022 (13) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |