Television: Policy and Culture

ISBN-13: 9780044457657 / Angielski / Twarda / 1990 / 288 str.

Richard Collins; R. Collins

Opis

this is a collection of essays which address, with varying degrees of explicitness, the assumptions from which media analysts and communication scholars have customarily approached television. It focuses on the impact of new technologies and national policies for TV in North America and Europe.

Spis treści

Preface 1 Paradigm Lost? 2 Media Studies and Research on Information and Communication Technologies in the UK 3 The Language of Advantage: Satellite Television in Western Europe 4 The Prognosis for Satellite Television in the UK 5 White and Green and not much Re(a)d: The 1988 White Paper on Broadcasting Policy 6 Broadband Black Death Cuts Queues: The Information Society and the UK 7 Wall to Wall Dallas? The US-UK Trade in Television 8 Broadcasting and National Culture in Canada 9 National Culture: A Contradiction in Terms? 10 Walling Germany with Brass: Theoretical Paradigms in British Studies of Television News 11 Seeing is Believing: The Ideology of Naturalism

O autorze

Richard Collins