CINE 121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Access Games
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Creativity, culture, and commerce: producing australian children"s television with public. Value by: anna potter (cont: children on television. In contemporary australia children continue to appear as both fictional characters in live action drama and as themselves in game shoes, action, factual and adventure programmes made for children. Australian policy-makers have always privileged drama over other genres, such as game shows or sport, in the achievement of national cultural representations. The societal need to protect the vulnerable child as television viewer applies equally to the vulnerable child on television, particularly children taking part in ordinary television. In the interests of protecting the vulnerable child, television producers of ordinary television that features children assume certain gatekeeping responsibilities. Efforts to ensure children are protected extend to the auditioning process. A corresponding sense of needing to protect children and make sure their appearance on ordinary television is a positive one shaped by the production of.
