| Description |
xii, 319 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. What do you Mean, Television Studies? -- 2. Critical Approaches to Television Studies -- 3. Institutions and Power: The British Television Industries -- 4. Television Product: Points of Contact -- 5. Television, Narrative and Form -- 6. Television News -- 7. Television and Realism -- 8. Television and Representations -- 9. Audiences, Meanings and Effects -- 10. British Television: Regulation, Censorship and Constraint -- 11. Television History -- 12. Television Futures |
| Summary |
"This new textbook introduces students to key approaches to television study, emphasizing culturalist, postmodernist and gender perspectives and explaining challenging concepts such as ideology, institution and audience with plenty of concrete examples and illustrations." "Important - and entertaining - TV genres such as crime drama and docusoaps are discussed, with separate chapters on news, realism and representation. The relationship between institution and audience, views on TV effects and theories of how meanings are constructed for and by the audience are explored in the light of current research. A chapter on television history is included, and the book concludes with a vision of the future of television, driven by the impact of globalization as well as advances in technology." "Critical debates and concepts are woven into the text, illustrated by diagrams and shots taken from a variety of programmes. This book will be core reading for students seeking information about the medium combined with thorough critical understanding."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
BONIWELL 52033125 X1 A35 4/4/00 |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [303]-309 |
| Subject |
Television programs -- Great Britain.
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Television programs.
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Television -- Social aspects.
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Television -- Study and teaching.
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Television -- Social aspects -- Great Britain.
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| LC no. |
2001269408 |
| ISBN |
0340589647 (paperback) |
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