Creativity in the British Television Comedy Industry
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-59597-5 (ISBN)
What is it like to make television comedy? How do writers get their ideas made, and how do commissioners and producers decide what to make? How do members of the comedy industry work with large broadcasters and production companies, and what does it mean to be creative – and stay creative?
Drawing on interviews with many key writers such as Sam Bain, Paul Doolan, Graham Linehan, David Mitchell, Simon Nye and Sue Teddern, producers including Ash Atalla, Lisa Clark, Michelle Farr, Ali McPhail, Jon Plowman and Adam Tandy, and commissioners, the BBC’s Shane Allen, Channel 4’s Nerys Evans and Sky’s Lucy Lumsden, Creativity in the British Television Comedy Industry explores the creative processes that lead to successful programme-making.
With detailed discussion of the processes by which series such as People Just Do Nothing and After Hours came to our screens, this book examines how members of the comedy industry maintain careers, manage failure, develop their craft, and stay creative.
Creativity in the British Television Comedy Industry is essential reading for students and researchers with an interest in comedy studies, television production, and the creative/media industries.
Brett Mills is Senior Lecturer in Television Studies at the University of East Anglia and is an affiliated researcher at the Centre for Comedy Studies Research, Brunel University. He is the author of Television Sitcom (2005) and The Sitcom (2009). Erica Horton is a PhD student at the University of East Anglia. Her research focuses on discursive constructions of creativity within the British television comedy industry with a particular focus on Channel 4.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: What is Creativity?
Introduction
Defining ‘Creativity’
The Creative Person
Creativity and Society
Creativity and Policy
Creativity as Work
Creativity and Comedy
Chapter 2: The UK Television Comedy Industry
Introduction
The BBC
ITV
Channel 4
Imported Comedy
Sky
Current Issues
Chapter 3: Creativity and New Writers
Introduction
A Desirable Industry?
The Individual and the Industry
Case Study 1: People Just Do Nothing
Case Study 2: After Hours
Case Study 3: The Script Editor
Conclusion
Chapter 4: Creativity and Established Writers
Introduction
The Creative Career
Gender and Age
Having a Career
Precarity and Planning
Mentoring and Support
Conclusion
Chapter 5: Creativity and Established Programmes
Introduction
Culture as an Industry
Creative Teams
Maintaining Individuality
Being Recommissioned
The Craft Industry
Personnel
Conclusion
Chapter 6: Creativity and Failure
Introduction
Working with Failure
The Scale of Failure
Managing Failure
Failure and Industry Structures
Personnel
Conclusion
Chapter 7: So, What is Creativity?
Introduction
Creativity Must be Claimed
Creativity is Work
Creativity is Craft
Creativity is Hierarchised
Creativity is Pleasurable
| Erscheinungsdatum | 01.07.2020 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 380 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Journalistik |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-367-59597-4 / 0367595974 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-367-59597-5 / 9780367595975 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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