A companion to television / edited by Janet Wasko.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wasko, Janet.

Series:

Blackwell companions in cultural studies ; 10.

Blackwell companions in cultural studies ; 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Television broadcasting.

Television.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (646 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A Companion to Television is a magisterial collection of 31 original essays that charter the field of television studies over the past century Explores a diverse range of topics and theories that have led to television's current incarnation, and predict its likely futureCovers technology and aesthetics, television's relationship to the state, televisual commerce; texts, representation, genre, internationalism, and audience reception and effectsEssays are by an international group of first-rate scholars For information, news, and content from Blackwell's reference

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786610199440

9781782687191

178268719X

9781280199448

128019944X

9780470793831

047079383X

9781405165433

140516543X

9780470997130

0470997133

9781405141468

1405141468

OCLC:

184983710