Title Television and British cinema : convergence and divergence since 1990 / Hannah Andrews

Published [Basingstoke] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014

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Description 1 online resource Contents Introduction: The Contexts of Convergence -- 1. Film and Television Drama: The Making of a Relationship -- 2. Television as Film, Film as Television: Broadcasting cinema in the 1990s -- 3.Commercialism and Quality: Television Institutions and the British Film Industry, 1998 -- 2002 -- 4. Digital Departures: Television Institutions and Low-budget Production -- 5.'Great Films You Know, Great Films You Don't': The Birth and Life of the FilmFour Digital Channel -- 6. New Logics of Convergence: Film Through Online Television -- 7. Conclusion: Convergence and Divergence Now Summary Hannah Andrews provides a timely and thorough investigation of the changing relationship between television and cinema in Britain since 1990. She explores the process of convergence, in terms of both the intermedial relationship between closely related cultural forms, and the involvement of institutions of television in the British film industry. Rather than view convergence as a byproduct of digitalization, Andrews argues for a longer history of analogue convergence, manifested in, for example, the use of television as an alternative exhibition platform for British cinema, or the broadcast of feature-length filmed television dramas traditionally conceptualized as 'plays' rather than films. "Television and British Cinema" demonstrates how these processes of convergence have been met with equally strong rhetorical 'divergence', the use of presentational devices or discursive framing to distinguish film from television. The book discusses the role of television institutions in these processes, focusing on a period in which the relationship between film and television in the UK developed into a symbiosis Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Publisher supplied information; title not viewed Subject Television programs -- Great Britain Motion pictures -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century Motion pictures -- Great Britain -- History -- 21st century Television -- c 1990 to c 2000 -- United Kingdom, Great Britain. -- 21st century. Films, cinema -- c 1990 to c 2000 -- United Kingdom, Great Britain. -- 21st century. PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference. Motion pictures Television programs Television -- United Kingdom, Great Britain -- c 1990 to c 1999 -- 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100. Films, cinema -- United Kingdom, Great Britain -- c 1990 to c 1999 -- 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100. Performing Arts. Great Britain Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781137311177 1137311177 9781137311160 1137311169

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