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The Quiz Show
Su Holmes
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Description for The Quiz Show
Paperback. A study of the quiz and game show format which has proved to be consistently popular with viewers since the growth of the medium in the 1950s. Series: TV Genres. Num Pages: 192 pages, 3 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 139 x 216 x 16. Weight in Grams: 276.
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, updating and expanding on existing quiz show scholarship. Ranging across programmes such as Double Your Money, The $64,000 Dollar Question, Twenty-One, The Price is Right, Who Wants to be a Millionaire and The Weakest Link to the controversial 'Quiz TV Call' phenomenon, the book explores programmes with a focus on question and answer. Topics covered include the relationship between quiz shows and television ... Read more
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, updating and expanding on existing quiz show scholarship. Ranging across programmes such as Double Your Money, The $64,000 Dollar Question, Twenty-One, The Price is Right, Who Wants to be a Millionaire and The Weakest Link to the controversial 'Quiz TV Call' phenomenon, the book explores programmes with a focus on question and answer. Topics covered include the relationship between quiz shows and television ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Series
TV Genres
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748627530
SKU
V9780748627530
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99-50
About Su Holmes
Su Holmes is Reader in Television Studies at the University of East Anglia.
Reviews for The Quiz Show
This book offers an absorbing and thoughtful discussion of a television genre, the quiz show, that has sustained its popularity since the emergence of television, yet only now, in this volume, receives the sustained and scholarly attention that it warrants.
Professor Garry Whannel, University of Bedfordshire This book offers an absorbing and thoughtful discussion of a television genre, the ... Read more
Professor Garry Whannel, University of Bedfordshire This book offers an absorbing and thoughtful discussion of a television genre, the ... Read more