Authors: Stuart Hood, Thalia Tabary-Peterssen
ISBN-13: 9780745311111, ISBN-10: 0745311113
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Pluto Press
Date Published: July 1997
Edition: REV
On Television has long been regarded as one of the best critiques of television ever published, offering a lucid, jargon-free and impressively concise analysis of every aspect of the television industry from the images on our screens to the organisations that produce (and manipulate) those images. it is an invaluable introduction to the world of television broadcasting as an integral part of the mass media which impinges so greatly on our lives.
List of Abbreviations | ||
Introduction | ||
Acknowledgements | ||
1 | Television - A Map of the Medium | 1 |
2 | The Flow of Images and Gatekeeping | 8 |
3 | The Audience | 19 |
4 | The History of Terrestrial Television | 28 |
5 | The Regulatory Bodies | 40 |
6 | The Charter and the Act | 48 |
7 | The Growth of Government Intervention | 54 |
8 | The Thatcher Years | 61 |
9 | Enter Murdoch - A Cautionary Tale | 67 |
10 | The Thatcher Inheritance | 74 |
11 | Digital Television | 85 |
12 | Convergence | 93 |
Selected Reading | 107 | |
Index | 109 |