Description
Book SynopsisA 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.
Trade ReviewThis 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 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.
Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Genre and the Quiz Show; 2. Quiz Show Histories; 3. Quiz Show Theory: Approaching the Programme Text; 4. Knowledge in the Quiz Show; 5. The Quiz Show and Ordinary' People as Television Performers; 6. 'Asking the Audience': Quiz Shows and their Viewers; Conclusion; Bibliography.
