The Television Studies Reader
Hill, Annette LU and Allen, Robert C (2003)- Abstract
- The Television Studies Reader brings together key writings in the expanding field of television studies, providing an overview of the discipline and addressing issues of industry, genre, audiences, production and ownership, and representation.
The Reader charts the ways in which television and television studies are being redefined by new and 'alternative' ways of producing, broadcasting and watching TV, such as cable, satellite and digital broadcasting, home video, internet broadcasting, and interactive TV, as well as exploring the recent boom in genres such as reality TV and docusoaps. It brings together articles from leading international scholars to provide perspectives on television programmes and practices from around the... (More) - The Television Studies Reader brings together key writings in the expanding field of television studies, providing an overview of the discipline and addressing issues of industry, genre, audiences, production and ownership, and representation.
The Reader charts the ways in which television and television studies are being redefined by new and 'alternative' ways of producing, broadcasting and watching TV, such as cable, satellite and digital broadcasting, home video, internet broadcasting, and interactive TV, as well as exploring the recent boom in genres such as reality TV and docusoaps. It brings together articles from leading international scholars to provide perspectives on television programmes and practices from around the world, acknowledging both television's status as a global medium and the many and varied local contexts of its production and reception. Articles are grouped in seven themed sections, each with an introduction by the editors:
Institutions of Television
Spaces of Television
Modes of Television
Making Television
Social Representation on Television
Watching Television
Transforming Television (Less)
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- editor
- Hill, Annette LU and Allen, Robert C
- publishing date
- 2003
- type
- Book/Report
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- television studies, genre, institutions of television, spaces of television, audiences
- pages
- 656 pages
- publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 0415283248
- 0-415-28323-X
- 9780415283243
- 9780415283236
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- no
- additional info
- Robert C. Allen is James Logan Godfrey Professor of American Studies, History, and Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of Speaking of Soap Operas and the editor of To Be Continued: Soap Operas Around the World, Channels of Discourse and Channels of Discourse, Reassembled. Annette Hill is Reader in Communication at the Communication and Media Research Institute, University of Westminster, UK. She is the author of Shocking Entertainment: Viewer Response to Violent Movies (1997), TV Living: Television, Audiences and Everyday Life , with David Gauntlett (Routledge 1999), and Reality TV: Television Audiences and Factual Entertainment (Routledge 2003).
- id
- 7885741e-328e-44b8-bfb2-1b3b2c3f6b43
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- 2016-05-14 10:59:31
- date last changed
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