Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Game On
- 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: ‘Not the Final Answer…’
- Bibliography
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Game On
- 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: ‘Not the Final Answer…’
- Bibliography
- Index
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- The Quiz Show , pp. vPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2008