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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Channel 4"”.
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“Luxury Items”: Discourses of Cultural Value in Creating Channel 4 Comedy
… language used to construct television comedy at Channel 4 within three sites: broadcasting policy documents, interviews with Channel 4 heads of department and commissioners, and creative practitioners that have produced comedies for Channel 4 broadcast. In doing so this thesis uses a …
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Why do Channel 4 and the BBC portray disability and disability sport differently? Analysing the production processes and audience reception of mediated sport
… the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and Channel 4 – a mainstream commercial television broadcaster in the UK. It investigates whether Channel 4 portrays disability in shows which are designed to be laughed at or laughed with, given that Channel 4 has the UK broadcasting rights to the …
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Short meridional scale anomalies in the lower stratosphere and upper troposphere
… in the analyses of Microwave Sounding Unit (MSU) channel 4 data. Newman and Stanford (1983) further elucidated the properties of these anomalies, and their work is duplicated herein;It is shown that 1000-3000 km meridional scale anomalies with 10,000-40,000 km zonal scales exist in the MSU channel …
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Towards Intercultural Documentary
… broadcast to peak-time audiences on BBC 2 and Channel 4, stood in contradistinction to mainstream narratives that typically portrayed British experience as largely monocultural and homogeneous. The contribution to knowledge of this thesis is in deepening and extending the dynamics of …
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Gender, feminism and talk on British television, 1970-1990
… 1971-1984), Pictures of Women: Sexuality (Channel 4, 1984), Watch the Woman (Channel 4, 1985), and Question Time (BBC One, 1979-present). These case studies offer a deliberate selection of television texts that differ according to their institutional contexts; their position in the …
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A Dark Reflection of Society: Analyzing Cultural Representations of State Control in Black Mirror
… to the field by analyzing three themes found in Channel 4’s Black Mirror in relation to cultural fears of state control and the progression of technology. The themes, including state power and coercion, the spectacle of punishment, and panoptic surveillance, are placed in a popular criminological …
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The television policies of the UK administrations of Margaret Thatcher and John Major 1979-1997
… and Major administrations: the establishment of Channel 4; their policies on the new technologies of satellite and broadband cable; the impact of the Committee chaired by Alan Peacock on the Financing of the BBC; the reform of ITV; their policies for the renewal of the BBC charter in the 1990s; …
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Mapping PAMP Responses and Disease Resistance in Brassicas
… genes including CYLIC NUCLEOTIDE GATED ION CHANNEL 4 (CNGC4) also known as DEFENCE NO DEATH 2 (DND2). An insertion in Arabidopsis thaliana DND2 showed phenotypic difference in the oxidative burst between the insertion line and Col-0, potentially indicating a role for the gene in regulating …
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Faith in view: religion and pirituality in factual British television 2000-2009
… on mainstream terrestrial networks (BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Five) with a public service remit. The study employs a mixed-method approach with an emphasis on discourse. Working within a broadly Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) framework, it explores discourses around religion/spirituality, …