Television Studies: The Key Concepts

ISBN-13: 9780415371506 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 347 str.

Ben Calvert

Opis

Television Studies: The Key Concepts is the definitive reference guide to an area of rapidly expanding academic interest. Among those aspects of television studies covered in this comprehensive and up-to-date guide are:

• theoretical perspectives which have shaped the study of television - Marxism; semiology; feminism
• concepts which have shaped the study of television - narrative; representation; bias
• television genres - soap opera; news; science fiction
• methods used for understanding television - content analysis; audience research
• relevant social, economic and political phenomena - ownership; social policy.

Recenzje

'The quality of the entries... is of high standard. Anyone who wants a primer to TV's key concepts can be confident this book will give them a grounding.' - PoV

Spis treści

Introduction.  Acknowledgements.  List of Concepts.  Key Concepts.  Bibliography.  Index

O autorze

Ben Calvert, Neil Casey, Bernadette Casey, Liam French, Justin Lewis