Authors: Jonathan Bignell
ISBN-13: 9780415419178, ISBN-10: 0415419174
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Routledge
Date Published: September 2007
Edition: REV
Jonathan Bignell is Professor of Television and Film at the University of Reading. He is the author of Media Semiotics: An Introduction, Big Brother: Reality TV in the Twenty-first Century and Postmodern Media Culture, and co-author of The Television Handbook. He is the editor of Writing and Cinema, and joint editor of Popular Television Drama and British Television Drama: Past, Present and Future.
In this comprehensive textbook, newly updated for its second edition, Jonathan Bignell provides students with a framework for understanding the key concepts and main approaches to Television Studies, including audience research, television history and broadcasting policy, and the analytical study of individual programmes.
Features for the second edition include:
Individual chapters address: studying television, television histories, television cultures, television texts and narratives, television and genre, television production, postmodern television, television realities, television representation, television you can’t see, shaping audiences, television in everyday life.
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Acknowledgements | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
1 | Studying Television | 11 |
2 | Television Histories | 35 |
3 | Television Cultures | 61 |
4 | Television Texts and Television Narratives | 85 |
5 | Television and Genre | 113 |
6 | Television Production | 135 |
7 | Postmodern Television | 161 |
8 | Television Realities | 183 |
9 | Television Representation | 209 |
10 | Television You Can't See | 229 |
11 | Shaping Audiences | 253 |
12 | Television in Everyday Life | 277 |
Glossary of key terms | 303 | |
Select bibliography | 317 | |
Index | 329 |