A companion to television

Wiley-Blackwell, A John Wiley&Sons

[2005]

xv, 627 p.

Blackwell companions in cultural studies ; 10

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9781405100946

The development of television studies / Horace Newcomb --Critical perspectives on television from the Frankfurt School to postmodernism / Doug Kellner --Television and history / Paddy Scannell --Our TV heritage / Lynn Spigel --Television as a moving aesthetic / Julianne H. Newton --Locating the televisual in golden age television / Caren Deming --Television production / Jane M. Shattuc --Who rules TV? States, markets, and the public interest / Sylvia Harvey --Public broadcasting and democratic culture / Graham Murdock --Culture, services, knowledge / Stuart Cunningham --Television advertising as textual and economic systems / Matthew P. McAllister --Watching television / Eileen R. Meehan --Keeping "abreast" of MTV and Viacom / Jack Banks --The trade in television news / Andrew Calabrese --Configurations of the new television landscape / Albert Moran --The study of soap opera / Christine Geraghty --The shifting terrain of American talk shows / Jane M. Shattuc --Television and sports / Michael R. Real --"Where the past comes alive" / Gary R. Edgerton --"How will you make it on your own?" / Bonnie J. Dow --Television and race / Sasha Torres --Television, public spheres, and civic cultures / Peter Dahlgren --Television and public opinion / Justin Lewis --Reality TV / Annette Hill --A special audience? children and television / David Buckingham --Local community channels / DeeDee Halleck --Latin American commercial television / John Sinclair --Television in China / Yuezhi Zhao and Zhenshi Guo --Japanese television / Shunya Yoshimi --Change and transformation in South African television / Ruth Teer-Tomaselli --Television in the Arab East / Nabil H. Dajani

Presenting 31 essays covering the history and development of television studies, this volume explores a wide range of topics including technology and aesthetics, television's relationship to the state, and televisual commerce.

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