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The Television Studies Reader brings 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.
The Reader charts 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 practices from around the world. The Reader comprises 44 foundational and cutting-edge articles from an international cast of contributors, situating the study of television in relation both to its global reach and to the many and varied local contexts of its production and reception, and laying out a wide array of approaches to the study of the changing phenomenon of television around the world. The essays are organized in seven themed sections: * Institutions of Television * Spaces of Television * Modes of Television * Making Television * Social Representation on Television * Watching Television * Transforming Television Key features include a comprehensive bibliography and a list of further reading.
About the Author
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).
The Television Studies Reader,ROBERT ALLEN,Annette Hill,Routledge,0415283248,Media Studies,Performing Arts,Performing Arts/Dance,Sociology,Television,Television & Video,Television - History & Criticism,Television broadcasting
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