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Tele-Visions: Methods and Concepts in Television Studies »
Authors: Glen Creeber
ISBN-13: 9781844570850, ISBN-10: 1844570851
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: BFI Publishing
Date Published: April 2006
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Glen Creeber
Glen Creeber is a senior lecturer in film and television studies at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. His books include Dennis Potter, Between Two Worlds (1998) and Serial Television: Big Drama on the Small Screen (BFI 2004). He is also editor of The Television Genre Book (BFI 2001), and 50 Key Television Programmes (2004).
Book Synopsis
This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the subject of television studies. This book offers an insight into how television is produced, broadcast, controlled, consumed and critically examined. It is useful to those studying television and the media. Fully illustrated - it includes selected reading guides and bibliographies.
Table of Contents
| 1 | Defining the medium : TV form and aesthetics | 12 |
| Case study : issues in television authorship | 20 | |
| 2 | Analysing television : issues and methods in textual analysis | 26 |
| Case study : shot-by-shot analysis | 38 | |
| 3 | Decoding television : issues of ideology and discourse | 44 |
| Case study : an ideological analysis of sky news | 56 | |
| 4 | Analysing factual TV : how to study television documentary | 60 |
| Case study : different documentary modes : World in action, Hotel and Wife swap | 67 | |
| 5 | Analysis TV fiction : how to study television drama | 74 |
| Case study : modernism and postmodernism in television drama | 86 | |
| 6 | Television and its audience : issues of consumption and reception | 93 |
| Case study : fandom and fan studies | 100 | |
| 7 | Television and history : investigating the past | 107 |
| Case study : a (very) brief history of television | 115 | |
| 8 | Television and regulation : examining institutional structures | 124 |
| Case study : the BBC and the state | 131 | |
| 9 | Television and globalisation : national and international concerns | 137 |
| Case study : indigenous television | 146 | |
| 10 | Post TV? : the future of television | 153 |
| Case study : television and convergence | 160 |
Subjects
Entertainment
Television Television - General & Miscellaneous
Entertainment Television Television Broadcasting - General & Miscellaneous
Nonfiction Entertainment Television
Television Television - General & MiscellaneousEntertainment
Television Television Broadcasting - General & MiscellaneousNonfiction
Entertainment Television
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