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?
Chapter 1: The Slippery Terrain of Offensive Television.- Chapter 2: Producing the Imagined Audience of Offensive Screens.- Chapter 3: Just Kidding! Negotiating the Line between Humour and Offence.- Chapter 4: Audiences Speak Back: Re-Working Offensive Texts.- Chapter 5: Audiences' Expectations of Regulators and Producers.- Chapter 6: Provocative Screens.
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