Ourselves in Primetime: A History of New Zealand Television Drama

Author/Artist/Editor

Trisha Dunleavy

Type

Book, Hard Copy

Date

2005

Press/Publisher

U of Auckland Press

Description

This is the first study of homegrown television drama in New Zealand, covering its development in all genres from 1960 to the present day and treating landmark programmes in detail. Dunleavy addresses the difficulties, practical, creative, economic and political, that have faced the production of TV drama in a small country.

Important Notes

Beginnings : local drama and single-channel TV --
Pukemanu and the late NZBC era --
TV One and SPTV : golden years for drama? --
The governor, the late 1970s, and Amalgamation --
TVNZ's first years --
Drama in the mid-1980s --
Erebus and the late 1980s --
Deregulation : the new environment --
The 1990s, New Zealand on air, and Shortland Street --
Drama at the turn of the century.

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Keywords

Television in New Zealand, Television studies

ISSN/ISBN

1869403398

Availability

Available

OCLC

61451947