Bloodbath by Patricia Edgar - ISBN: 9780522852813
Hardcover
Australian TV icon’s brutal, inspiring fight for quality children’s television.

Bloodbath

A Memoir of Australian Television

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  • Hardcover

    440 pages

  • Release Date

    1 October 2006

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Summary

Bloodbath is a must-read for every Australian in the media industry, every parent raising a child, every woman who ever strove for career success, and anyone interested in how leadership works.

Patricia Edgar has been named one of the ten most influential people in the development of Australian television production. Her candid memoir offers a rare behind-the-scenes look at the television industry and its politics. It also tells her own story-of how a young girl from Mildura became a …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780522852813
ISBN-10:0522852815
Author:Patricia Edgar
Publisher:Melbourne University Press
Imprint:Melbourne University Press
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:440
Edition:1st
Release Date:1 October 2006
Weight:780g
Dimensions:240mm x 161mm x 43mm
About The Author

Patricia Edgar

In a career spanning more than forty years, Patricia Edgar has been an educator, an activist, an author, a media regulator, a television producer, and a leader in the media industry.

Dr Edgar was instrumental in the establishment of the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal’s Program Standards for children’s television. However, she is best known as the founding Director of the Australian Children’s Television Foundation.

Her books about television and the media include Children and Screen Violence, Under Five in Australia, Media She (with Hilary McPhee) and The Politics of the Press.

Dr Edgar lives in Melbourne with her husband, author and social researcher Don Edgar, near her two daughters and four grandchildren. She is chair of the World Summit on Media for Children Foundation. A breast cancer survivor, she also chairs the Breast Cancer Network of Australia.

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