Provocative Screens: Offended Audiences in Britain and Germany

by Ranjana Das and Anne Graefer

Book Overview

This book offers a nuanced understanding of 'offensive' television content by drawing on an extensive research project, involving in-depth interviews and focus groups with audiences in Britain and Germany. Provocative Screens asks: what makes something really offensive and to whom in what context? Why it offence felt so differently? And how does offensive content matter in public life, regulation, and institutional understandings?

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319679066
• ISBN13: 9783319679068
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"