Work

Stand Up to Cancer 2012 and 2014

Year: 2016

Type: article

Abstract: In a fragmenting attention economy, the stakes for television (TV) and for the public service broadcaster are particularly high. This article looks at the different strategies at play in the British broadcaster C4’s adaptation of the US-originated Stand Up to Cancer telethon format to present its particular voice and brand in this ecology. This intervention into the politics of medicine is analysed in relation to the discourses of neo-liberalism which, it is argued, have increasingly become part of the mode of address of British factual TV content and have increasingly defined the working of the country’s national health system.

Source: Critical Studies in Television The International Journal of Television Studies

DOI: 10.1177/1749602016645750

Author: Diane Charlesworth

Institution: University of Lincoln

Language: English

Topic: Media Studies and Communication

Subfield: Communication

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2345717320

FWCI: 1.901

Cites: 22

Cited by: 6

Related to: 10