Creating preschool television: a story of commerce, creativity and curriculum

Small children are regularly captivated by programmes made especially for them b ranging from classics like Sesame Street to more recent arrivals such as Blues Clues and Teletubbies. This book examines the industry interests behind preschool television, and how commercial, creative and curricular priorities shape and inform what is produced. INDICE: Acknowledgements - List of Illustrations - Understanding PreschoolTelevision as a Production Ecology - Safe at Home: The Origins of Preschool Television as a Public Service Project - Growing Up: The Rise of the Global Market in Preschool Programming - Broadcaster Perspectives on Preschool Production - Players in Rights Management and Production - Production Preliminaries - Development and Research - Production Checklists, Rules and Assumptions - In Production - Spinning Off Profits: Ancillary Exploitation and the Power of Retail - Policy Interventions and the Crisis in Children's Television (co-writtenwith Alessandro D'Arma) - The Bigger Picture: Preschool Television in its Critical and Aesthetic Contexts (co-written with James Walters) - Conclusions andFuture Outlook - Notes - Bibliography - Index

• ISBN: 978-0-230-57440-3
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 264
• Fecha Publicación: 24/02/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés