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.
Ranjana Das is Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication at the University of Surrey, UK.
Anne Graefer is Lecturer in Media Theory at Birmingham City University, UK.
Offensive media can be upsetting or funny, sought after or avoided, provocative or banal. While regulators debate whether they should be restricted, Das and Graefer reveal that audiences responses ?variously ethical or evasive concern less the offensive media than the often hurtful world thereby depicted. In so doing, they also reveal the importance of actually consulting the public on whose behalf so many venture to speak.
Sonia Livingstone, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
A perennial delight of good audience research is the way it shows how issues judged simple and obvious by the loudest voices in our culture are in fact complex and variable. ?This book does that in spades with the current fetish of offence. ?Das and Gralƒ
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