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book		Australian cultural studies : a reader / edited by John Frow and Meaghan Morris St Leonards, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, 1993. Call No: 408.1(94) AUS Author: Frow, John, 1948; Morris, Meaghan Place: St Leonards, N.S.W. Publisher: Allen & Unwin PubDate: 1993 PhysDes: xxxii, 296 p. : ill. ; 22 cm Series: Questions in cultural studies Subject: POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; IMPERIALISM AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; SERIALS. AUSTRALIA; AUDIENCE RESEARCH. AUSTRALIA; HISTORY OF TV. AUSTRALIA; POPULAR CULTURE AND TV. AUSTRALIA; POLITICS AND TV. AUSTRALIA; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; CHAMBERLAIN, AZARIA; EMBASSY [TV] (AT, Paul Moloney/Mark Callan/Karl Steinberg, 1991 -) Notes: CIP confirmed; Bibliography: p. 292-296 ISBN: 1863734996 : 439.95; 1863734147 (pbk.) : $19.95 LON: 13615766; 9721242 More info
book		Australian popular culture / edited by Ian Craven with Martin Gray and Geraldine Stoneham Melbourne, Australia: Cambridge University Press, published in association with Australian Studies and the British Australian Studies Association, 1994. Call No: 408.1(94) CRA Author: Craven, Ian; Gray, Martin; Stoneham, Geraldine Source: UK Place: Melbourne, Australia Publisher: Cambridge University Press, published in association with Australian Studies and the British Australian Studies Association PubDate: 1994 PhysDes: 228 pages, 2 folded leaves ; 24 cm Series: Australian cultural studies Subject: COPRODUCTION. AUSTRALIA; INDUSTRY, FILM. AUSTRALIA; INDUSTRY, TV. AUSTRALIA; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; POPULAR CULTURE AND TV. AUSTRALIA Summary: "Australia's leisure culture is legendary, and as millions of British viewers of Neighbours, fans of Yothu Yindi or drinkers of Castlemaine XXXX would attest, Australian popular culture is popular outside of Australia. Australian Popular Culture is an exciting collection of essays bringing together new perspectives on the nature and meaning of a nation's changing life. The collection also explores the idea of popular culture at large. Leading authors represent a range of approaches, backgrounds and fields to explore subjects of wide interest within the categories of 'the everyday', 'the mass media' and 'critical theory'. Chapters are devoted to the Aussie Back Yard; Vegemite; postage stamps; Australian Rules football; the introduction of television; Crocodile Dundee; The Lindy Chamberlain Affair; Spycatcher; Domesticity, leisure and love and Postmodernism and Australian Culture." -Publisher description. Notes: 2 folded leaves inserted into back of book, entitled "Australian historical studies, style sheet for book reviewers"; Some text highlighted pages 66-76 ISBN: 0521466679 Contents: Introduction -- Part I. Popular Culture as the Everyday: 1. A brief cultural history of vegemite Robert White -- 2. The Australian back yard George Seddon -- 3. Stamp duty Xavier Pons -- 4. Australian football as secular religion Stephen Alomes -- Part II. Popular Culture and the 'Mass' Media: 5. Controlling the technology of popular culture and the introduction of television to Australia James Walter -- 6. 'Crocodile Dundee': the revival of American virtue Ruth Brown -- 7. The Boys from the Bush: television coproduction in the 1990s Ian Craven -- 8. Patterns of control in Australian crime fiction Stephen Knight -- 9. National fictions and the 'Spycatcher' trial Kevin Foster -- 10. Naturalising 'horror stories': Australian crime news as popular culture Christine Higgins -- Part III. Popular Culture and Critical Theory: 11. How to be a singer though married: domesticity, leisure and modern love Kay Ferres -- 12. The Wild Colonial Boy rides again and again: an Australian legend abroad Grahame Seal -- 13. Shaping the Plain Australian: Social analysis in the 1940s and 1950s Nicholas Brown -- 14. 'On the Beach': Apocalyptic hedonism and the origins of postmodernism Andrew Milner. More info
book		Contemporary Australian television / Stuart Cunningham and Toby Miller Sydney, NSW: UNSW Press, 1994. Call No: 71(94) CUN Author: Cunningham, Stuart; Miller, Toby Place: Sydney, NSW Publisher: UNSW Press PubDate: 1994 PhysDes: viii, 184 p., [4] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 22 cm Subject: HISTORY AND TV. AUSTRALIA; HISTORY AND TV; TELEVISION. AUSTRALIA; POPULAR CULTURE AND TV; POPULAR CULTURE AND TV. AUSTRALIA Summary: This book provides the first up-to-date introduction to the shape and style of Australian television in the 1980s, 1990s, and beyond. Traditional formats like news, current affairs, and sport as well as newer genres like tabloid and reality TV are treated in detail. The authors use their expertise in cultural and media studies to take apart the medium in terms of text, genre, audience, antion, culture, policy, industry, and postmodernity. -Blurb ISBN: 0-86840-397-0 Contents: Terms and debates--Text--Genre--Audience--Nation--Culture--Policy--Industry--Postmodernity--Continuing debates------Electronic forum--News--Current affairs--Mix and match genres--Four Corners and the truth--Trends in reading the genre------Spectacle of sport--Sport for sport's sake--Sport for TV's sake--Language of sports television------Hard copy, soft porn (by David Rowe)--Regulation of sexualised violence--Sex, violence and genre--Hard Copy: subject and structure--Regulating sexualised violence on television------OZ TV goes global--Television international--Cross-cultural textual and audience analysis--Middle range approach--Australian soaps in Britain------Tomorrow's television--Tele-visions of a nation in the 1990s--ABC in Asia--Software wars: Pay TV--Community TV and diversity. More info
book		Glad all over : the Countdown years 1974-1987 / Peter Wilmoth Ringwood, Vic.: McPhee Gribble, 1993. Call No: 79COU WIL Author: Wilmoth, Peter Source: AT Place: Ringwood, Vic. Publisher: McPhee Gribble PubDate: 1993 PhysDes: 249 p. : ill., ports. ; 21 cm Subject: MUSIC PROGRAMMES. AUSTRALIA; POPULAR CULTURE AND TV. AUSTRALIA; MELDRUM, IAN "MOLLY"; COUNTDOWN (TV) (AT, 1974-1987) Summary: This book looks at the TV program, Countdown which began in 1974, and which examined everything that mattered musically - the beautiful, ugly, energetic, has been, is going to be, talented and meritless. Countdown is shown as a cultural backdrop for the generation of Australians, that grew up in that gruesome era, the seventies.[Taken from the back of the book] Notes: Bibliography: p.248 ISBN: 0869142933 Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006 More info
book		The media : a new analysis of the press, television, radio and advertising in Australia / Keith Windschuttle Ringwood, Vic.: Penguin, 1984. Call No: 401(94) WIN Author: Windschuttle, Keith, 1942 Place: Ringwood, Vic. Publisher: Penguin PubDate: 1984 PhysDes: xi, 436 p. : ill., facsims. ; 21 cm Subject: MEDIA. AUSTRALIA; ADVERTISING. AUSTRALIA; TELEVISION. AUSTRALIA; POPULAR CULTURE AND TV. AUSTRALIA; NEWS PROGRAMMES. AUSTRALIA; POLITICS AND TV. AUSTRALIA Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN: 0140068481 : $12.95 Aust LON: 2772766 More info
book		What about me? Identity, subjectivity and reality TV participation / by Winnie Salamon Melbourne: 2010. Call No: 76:759 SAL Author: Salamon, Winnie Source: AT Place: Melbourne PubDate: 2010 PhysDes: 275 leaves, bound ; 30 cm Subject: PERSONALITIES ON TV; PERSONALITIES ON TV. AUSTRALIA; POPULAR CULTURE AND TV; POPULAR CULTURE AND TV. AUSTRALIA; REALITY "SHOWS"; REALITY SHOWS, TV. AUSTRALIA; REALITY SHOWS. AUSTRALIA; REALITY TV; REALITY TV. AUSTRALIA; RESEARCH TV; TELEVISION; AUSTRALIAN IDOL [TV] (AT, 2003-); BIG BROTHER (AT, 2001); BIG BROTHER [TV]; BIG BROTHER [TV] (AT, 2001); BIG BROTHER UNCUT [TV] (AT, 2001-); BIGGEST LOSER, THE [TV] (AT, 2006) Summary: "This thesis examines first person accounts of former reality television participants who have appeared on Australian versions of Big Brother, Australian Idol and The Biggest Loser. While scholars have researched audience responses to a wide range of reality shows, little research has been conducted on the participants themselves. My qualitative research study involving 15 semi-structed one-on-one interviews with reality TV participants addresses this gap, using these accounts to explore broader issues surrounding late modern identity and subjectivity" -- ABSTRACT Notes: Typescript; Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Melbourne, School of Culture and Communication, 2011; Includes bibliographical references Contents: -- acknowledgments -- introduction -- chapter one: reality tv and our collective selves: a history and review of the literature -- chapter two: qualitative research and reflexivity: interviewing through an ethnographic gaze -- chapter three: 'there's no reality in reality tv': performing the real in a 'reality flavoured' universe -- chapter four: what about me? reality tv and the self-governed citizen -- chapter five: brand new world: reality tv and the branded human -- chapter six: reality is a bitch: expectations and disappointments in reality tv -- chapter seven: hijacking the branded self: reality tv and the politics of subversion -- conclusion -- appendix 1: the interviewees -- appendix 2: interview questions -- bibliography -- More info

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