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Index
Cover
Author bio
Endorsement
Title page
Copyright page
Table of contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Author’s note
Introduction: What is spectacular television? What is (tele)visual pleasure?
The spectacular in audio-visual culture: Debates and problems
Categorising spectacular television: Genre, movement or mode?
Part I Spectacular Histories, Spectacular Technologies
1 Television comes to town: The spectacle of television at the mid-twentieth-century exhibition and beyond
The Festival of Britain
The spectacle of television production at the National Radio Show
The spectacle of domestic modernity at the Ideal Home Exhibition
The legacy of television at the exhibition
2 Spectacular colour? Reconsidering the launch of colour television in Britain
Chromophobia and the problem of colour
Setting up colour television and selling it
On the question of ‘spectacular colour’ vs ‘realist colour’
Making meaning or ‘looking pretty’
Part II Spectacular Landscapes and the Natural World: Exploring Beautiful Television
3 At home on safari: Colonial spectacle, domestic space and 1950s television
Colonial Kenya
Armand and Michaela Denis: At home on safari
4 Visual pleasure, natural history television and televisual beauty
Inserting natural history into the quality debate
Visual pleasure and public service broadcasting
Beautiful television
5 Television’s landscapes, (tele)visual pleasure and the imagined elsewhere
The landscape programme and the contemplative viewer
Holidays, the tourist gaze and the imagined elsewhere
Part III Spectacular Bodies and (Tele)visual Pleasure
6 Fascinating bodies: Looking inside television’s somatic spectacle
Gazing inside the body: Mysterious places and wild rides
Freak shows, fascinomas and the medical economy of spectacularising the televisual body
The dead and the dying: The limits of corporeal spectacle on television
7 The erotics of television
The proliferation of television sex
The proxemics of television – televisual desire up close
Mapping female desire and the erotic spectacle of television
Intentional vs accidental erotic spectacle – flows of televisual desire
Conclusion: Sites of wonder, sights of wonder
Notes
Introduction
Television comes to town
Spectacular colour? Reconsidering the launch of colour television in Britain
At home on safari
Visual pleasure, natural history television and televisual beauty
Television’s landscapes, (tele)visual pleasure and the imagined elsewhere
Fascinating bodies
The erotics of television
Conclusion
Bibliography
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