Television Drama

Professor John Tulloch (Charles Sturt University, Australia & Cardiff University, Wales) He has written widely on film history and theory, audience analysis and theories of textual criticism, and has published books on the British science fiction series, Doctor Who, and the Australian soap opera, A Country Practice.

'Aviation safety has been related to learning for decades. Human and technological considerations in safety must have a more balanced approach. This book explains how to relocate the role of technology in aviation.' Juan Carlos Lozano, IFALPA Accident Analysis Committee'Timely, necessary, and outspoken – Sanchez-Alarcos Ballesteros’ book explains how our way of learning to be safer may inherently retard our ability to learn more than we already know. He cogently lays out why we need to go beyond even more technology or even more regulations if we want to keep making progress on safety.' Sidney Dekker, Griffith University'The author presents a sound analysis of how modern aviation systems progressed by relying primarily on complex technology and flawless regulation. While this learning model increases capabilities to manage expected events, it lacks the power to respond adequately to unforeseen ones, because trust in the abilities of the human operator has been relinquished. This is a book that should be read by decision makers in the airframe manufacturing and insurance industries.' Hans-Juergen Hoermann, German Aerospace Center (DLR)'This book makes for fascinating reading for professionals interested in cognitive and educational psychology; human factors in aviation piloting; aircraft software design, development and usability; transportation safety, policy, economics, and ethics; business management; and organization development. Human factors/ergonomics professionals will be especially interested in this work because of applications to human-computer interaction, human-systems integration, human decision making and individual differences in dynamic environments, modeling/simulation, test/evaluation and training/development.' Ergonomics in Design, Winter 2010

• Introduction: theories of myth, agency and audience Part One Popular TV drama: ideology and myth 1 ‘Soft’ news: the space of TV drama 2 Genre and myth: ‘a half-formed picture’ Part Two Authored drama: agency as ‘strategic penetration’ 3 ‘Reperceiving the world’: making history 4 ‘Serious drama’: the dangerous mesh of empathy 5 TV drama as social event: text and inter-text 6 Authored drama: ‘not just naturalism’ 7 Industry/performance: drama as ‘strategic penetration’ Part Three Reading drama: audience use, exchange and play 8 ‘Use and exchange’: delivering audiences 9 Sub-culture and reading formation: regimes of watching Conclusion: comedies of ‘myth’ and ‘resistance’ 10 Comic order and disorder: residual and emergent ultures 11 ‘Marauding behaviour’: parody, carnival and the grotesque