Front line family: 'Women's culture' comes to the BBC

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The controversial origins and contested life of the first British soap, "Frontline Family" (FLF), within the context of the 'women's culture' largely missing from the BBC in its early years, is traced. The terms of the debate carried out in memos, meeting and reports behind the scenes, as FLF emerged and struggled against its humble origins, demonstrate how notions of quality and public service were both gendered and connected to notions of national identity and how the domestic serial drama challenged those important cornerstones of the BBC ethos.

United States, History, Criticism and interpretation, Soap operas, Television and women, Frontline Family (Television program)

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From Tit-Bits to Big Brother: a century of audience participation in the media

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Reality television shows such as 'Big Brother' provide a more comprehensive coverage of 'real' people and deploy more sophisticated technology in comparison with earlier audience participation formats. The history of participatory media from the late 19th century to the present day is examined to consider the appearance of periodicals featuring significant contributions from their readers in the 1880s and the emergence of 'real life' media genres in magazines and television in the 1980s and 1990s.

Periodicals, Evaluation, Periodical publishing, Public participation, Social participation

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The funding and distribution structure of the British film industry in the 1990s: localization and commercialization of British cinema towards a global audience

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The British film industry grew more reliant on commercial investment in the 1990s to fund and distribute films. This commercial investment came from many sources including foreign investment in films with potential for overseas box office sales and investment by television channels and satellite distributors.

Marketing procedures, Financial management, Goods & services distribution, MOTION PICTURES, Motion Picture and Video Industries, Channels of Distribution, Foreign investments, Finance, Marketing, Company investment, Investments, Motion picture industry, Movie industry, Distribution, Company marketing practices, Company financing, Company distribution practices, Motion pictures, British, British movies

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