Provocative Screens: Offended Audiences in Britain and Germany

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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? Front Matter ....Pages i-x The Slippery Terrain of Offensive Television (Ranjana Das, Anne Graefer)....Pages 1-24 Producing the Imagined Audience of Offensive Screens (Ranjana Das, Anne Graefer)....Pages 25-43 Just Kidding! Negotiating the Line Between Humour and Offence (Ranjana Das, Anne Graefer)....Pages 45-69 Audiences Speak Back: Re-Working Offensive Television (Ranjana Das, Anne Graefer)....Pages 71-87 Audiences’ Expectations of Regulators and Producers (Ranjana Das, Anne Graefer)....Pages 89-111 Provocative Screens (Ranjana Das, Anne Graefer)....Pages 113-126 Back Matter ....Pages 127-136