Authors: John Corner
ISBN-13: 9780198742203, ISBN-10: 0198742207
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: April 1999
Edition: 1st Edition
University of Liverpool
This important book is the first to offer a systematic review of the ideas which have been most influential across a full range of television criticism and research from the first pioneering studies to the most recent theory and analysis. It provides a general and accessible critical survey of writing, research, and debates about television. John Corner has organized the book into ten cross-referenced chapters covering both the humanities and the social science approaches.
1 | Introduction: Research and Criticism | 1 |
2 | Institution | 12 |
3 | Image | 24 |
4 | Talk | 37 |
5 | Narrative | 47 |
6 | Flow | 60 |
7 | Production | 70 |
8 | Reception | 80 |
9 | Pleasure | 93 |
10 | Knowledge | 108 |
11 | Television 2000: The Terms of Transformation | 120 |
References | 129 | |
Index | 137 |