How to be in public : the case of an early television show. / Ellis, John.
In: Celebrity Studies, Vol. 6, No. 3, 2015, p. 355-369.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
How to be in public : the case of an early television show. / Ellis, John.
In: Celebrity Studies, Vol. 6, No. 3, 2015, p. 355-369.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - How to be in public
T2 - the case of an early television show
AU - Ellis, John
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - The process of image management, whether that of celebrities or non-celebrities, involves attention to several different registers of communication at once. Television appearances have always presented difficulties for ordinary people in managing these different ‘framings’ (Goffman) of their spontaneous behaviour. This is vividly demonstrated by the first ever ‘Double Your Money’ programme on the newly opened British commercial channel ITN in 1955. The different performance styles that people employed, along with the key role of the presenter, Hughie Green, are here examined in detail. The problems of historical TV research using programmes that were ‘temporarily meaningful’ is also discussed along with other examinations of this archival programme.
AB - The process of image management, whether that of celebrities or non-celebrities, involves attention to several different registers of communication at once. Television appearances have always presented difficulties for ordinary people in managing these different ‘framings’ (Goffman) of their spontaneous behaviour. This is vividly demonstrated by the first ever ‘Double Your Money’ programme on the newly opened British commercial channel ITN in 1955. The different performance styles that people employed, along with the key role of the presenter, Hughie Green, are here examined in detail. The problems of historical TV research using programmes that were ‘temporarily meaningful’ is also discussed along with other examinations of this archival programme.
KW - television
KW - media history
KW - performance studies
KW - framing
KW - gameshow
KW - everyday life
U2 - 10.1080/19392397.2015.1062647
DO - 10.1080/19392397.2015.1062647
M3 - Article
VL - 6
SP - 355
EP - 369
JO - Celebrity Studies
JF - Celebrity Studies
SN - 1939-2397
IS - 3
ER -