Rewriting television / Alison Peirse.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1 The One-Long-Slow-Idea Book 2 Methods 3 Cast of Characters and Dialogue Key 4 Commissioning 5 Form 6 “That’s TV, It Isn’t Like Writing a Poem” 7 Development 8 Story 9 “It Is Horrible, It Is Necessary” 10 Voice 11 Glorious Coda: “How Are We Going to Get Out of This?”

"Rewriting Television suggests that it is time for a radical overhaul of television studies. If we don't want to merely recycle the same old methods, approaches and tropes for another twenty years, we need to consider major changes in why and how we do our work. I am talking here about method: this book offers a new model for doing television (or film, or media) studies that can be taken up around the world. It synthesizes ideas from production studies, screenwriting studies and the idea of "writing otherwise," to create a new way of studying television. It presents an entirely original approach to working with practitioner interviews that has never been seen before in film, television or media studies. It then offers a series of original reflections on form, story and voice, and considers how these reflections could shape future writing in our discipline(s). Ultimately, this is a book of ideas. This book asks "what if?" This book is an opportunity to imagine differently"-- Provided by publisher.