Provocative Screens: Offended Audiences in Britain and Germany

Das, Ranjana; Graefer, Anne

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?

Details

Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2017-11-23

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9783319679068

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-67907-5

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 136