Arts Programming for the Anthropocene

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bill Gilbert ◽  
Anicca Cox
Keyword(s):  
Arts Programming

Securing the Future for Arts Broadcasting

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caitriona Noonan ◽  
Amy Genders
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Production Costs ◽  
Public Service Broadcasting ◽  
Number Of Factors ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Deliberate Strategy ◽  
Arts Programming

Research commissioned by Ofcom categorises arts television as a genre ‘at risk’ of disappearing as relatively small audiences are unable to offset increased production costs. A decline is also evident in Ofcom's own research which finds that in the five years to 2011, spending on arts programming by the five main terrestrial broadcasters fell by 39 per cent. This decline is the confluence of a number of factors. Decreases in commissioning and production budgets mean fewer resources for producers. Within specialist factual genres such as arts, this can have a limiting effect on the coverage of the subject, access to expertise, and the aesthetics of the final programme. Without a deliberate strategy to save it, the downward trajectory of arts content on British public service broadcasting is unlikely to be reversed.

BBC arts programming: a service for citizens or a product for consumers?

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-74
Author(s):  
Amy Genders
Keyword(s):  
British Broadcasting Corporation ◽  
Value For Money ◽  
Unique Position ◽  
Key Indicator ◽  
Production Culture ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Internal Production ◽  
Arts Programming

The British Broadcasting Corporation occupies what is often considered to be a unique position within UK culture as both a respected national institution that is a pillar of enlightenment values and, increasingly, an agile, entrepreneurial business that has to deliver ‘value-for-money’. This study will contribute to the existing body of literature examining the impact of a neoliberal marketisation discourse on BBC policy by focusing specifically on the provision of arts programming as a key indicator of how the logic of the marketplace has permeated the BBC’s commissioning culture. In doing so, it argues that the loss of the topical arts magazine and discussion formats from BBC television, in contrast to radio, is symptomatic of the ways in which arts broadcasting has been reimagined both in the corporation’s internal production culture and in its public pronouncements as a product for consumers rather than a service for citizens.

scholarly journals When life becomes art: A librarian’s experience acting the part

2017 ◽  
Vol 78 (6) ◽  
pp. 319
Author(s):  
Laura Schwartz
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Student ◽  
Art History ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
History Department ◽  
The University ◽  
Arts Programming

In fall 2014, I was approached by a theater/dance undergraduate student who wanted to put on a play in the Fine Arts Library (FAL) at the University of Texas (UT)-Austin. Because we had done a variety of performing arts programming in our magnificent space, I was inclined to say yes. She had written and was directing a play that took place in a library. Being the liaison to the Art and Art History Department, I thought it prudent to bring the theater/dance librarian into the discussion.

The Limits of Rehabilitation and Recidivism Reduction: Rethinking the Evaluation of Arts Programming in Prisons

2020 ◽  
Vol 101 (1) ◽  
pp. 102-122
Author(s):  
Emily van der Meulen ◽  
Jackie Omstead
Keyword(s):  
Women's Prison ◽  
Reducing Recidivism ◽  
Arts Programming

Canadian prison-based arts and other programming are limited at best. Even the country’s Correctional Investigator, or prison-ombudsperson, has critiqued the lack of meaningful options in which prisoners can engage. Those programs that do exist tend to be focused on the logic of penal rehabilitation, with the end goal of reducing recidivism. In this article, we showcase the evaluation of a 9-week arts program in a women’s prison, the aim of which was to build community and foster artistic engagement, thus running counter to normative carceral logics.

The Beginnings of Civilisation: Television Travels to Greece with Mortimer Wheeler and Compton Mackenzie

2018 ◽  
pp. 64-83
Author(s):  
John Wyver
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Greece ◽  
Audience Research ◽  
Grand Tour ◽  
Similar Series ◽  
Radio Programming ◽  
Television Documentary ◽  
Archival Documentation ◽  
Arts Programming

This chapter considers two early BBC television documentary series about ancient Greece and its legacy: Armchair Voyage: Hellenic Cruise (1958) written and presented by Sir Mortimer Wheeler, and Sir Compton Mackenzie’s The Glory that was Greece (1959). Making use of archival documentation from the BBC Written Archives Centre, including audience research reports, the chapter details the network of influences on the series. It is argued that these series draw on earlier forms of encounters with and depictions of the sites of ancient Greece, including the Grand Tour, 19th-century photography, tourism, film travelogues and radio programming. In addition, the chapter details the ways in which these two series contributed centrally to establishing the fundamentals of the emerging form of the presenter-led documentary. This approach to documentary flourished a decade later in the BBC series Civilisation (1969), with Sir Kenneth Clark. Similar series centred on a journey with a presenter who acts as a surrogate for the viewer remain dominant in history and arts programming for television.

ARTS PROGRAMMING FOR THE ELDERLY

1978 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald H. Hoffman
Keyword(s):  
The Elderly ◽  
Arts Programming
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