Television Studies Reader

Name: Television Studies Reader
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ISBN: 9780415283243

ISBN-10: 0415283248

ISBN-13: 9780415283243

Edition: 2003

Authors: Robert C. Allen, Annette Hill

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The Television Studies Readerbrings together key writings in the growing field of television studies, providing an invaluable overview of the development of the field, and addressing issues of industry, genre, audiences, production and ownership, and representation. TheReadercharts the ways in which television and television studies are being redefined to include new and "alternative" forms and technologies such as cable television, direct satellite/digital broadcasting, home video, video art, video/digital applications on the internet, interactive TV, video surveillance, and converging media. It explores the recent boom in reality TV and includes discussions of television programs and…

Book details

List price: $57.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 12/29/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 656
Size: 6.97" wide x 9.69" long x 1.42" tall
Weight: 2.530
Language: English

Robert C. Allen is Smith Professor of Radio, Television, and Motion Pictures and associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is author of Speaking of Soap Operas and Horrible Prettines: Burlesque and American Culture and coauthor of Film History: Theory and Practice.



Notes on Contributors


Acknowledgements


Frequently Asked Questions: A General Introduction to the Reader




Institutions of Television


Introduction to part one



'Ises' and 'Oughts': Public Service Broadcasting in Europe




Moving Beyond the "Vast Wasteland": Cultural Policy and Television in the United States




Protecting the Citizen, Protecting Society




Australia's Television Culture




Telefeminism: How Lifetime Got its Groove, 1984-1997




Spaces of Television


Introduction to part two



Hollywood Planet: Global Media and the Competitive Advantage of Narrative Transparency




Geolinguistic Region as Global Space: the Case of Latin America




The Global, the Local and the Public Sphere




Popular Media as Public 'Sphericules' for Diasporic Communities




Modes of Television


Introduction to part three



A Cultural Approach to Television Genre Theory




Live Television Is Still Alive: On Television as an Unfulfilled




Codes and Conventions of Dramadoc and Docudrama




News as Performance: The Image as Event




Adworlds




Making Sense of Soaps




The Pie and the Crust: Television Program Formats




Making Television


Introduction to part four



Television Production




Modes of Production: The Televisual Apparatus




Big Brother Australia: Performing the 'Real' Twenty-Four-Seven




Studio Discussions




Media Pilgrims: On the Set of Coronation Street




Public Access/Private Confession: Home Video as (Queer) Community Television




Hausa Dramas and the Rise of Video Culture in Nigeria




Social Representation on Television