Authors: Christine Geraghty (Editor), David Lusted
ISBN-13: 9780340662311, ISBN-10: 034066231X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Date Published: October 1997
Edition: New Edition
Christine Gerghty is Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Glasgow.
David Lusted is Senior Lecturer in Film at Southampton Solent University.
Television studies has come of age as the rapid expansion in media and communications courses shows. The Television Studies Book is a stimulating and challenging collection that analyzes how the study of television has developed and points to new approaches dealing with rapidly changing technologies and formats. Chapters on the history and methods of studying television reflect on such issues as the impact of feminism and the development of ethnographic research while specific case studies on topics as varied as US "people shows," Brazilian telenovelas, and the varied use of video in the home give pointed and vivid accounts of current practices.
List of Contributors | ||
Acknowledgements | ||
General Introduction | 1 | |
1 | Television, Broadcasting, Flow: Key Metaphors in TV Theory | 17 |
2 | Housing Television: Textual Traditions in TV and Cultural Studies | 33 |
3 | Histories of British Television | 51 |
4 | The Making of a TV Literate Elite | 63 |
5 | What is the 'Television' of Television Studies? | 95 |
6 | Feminist Theory and Television Studies | 114 |
7 | Television Studies and Race | 131 |
8 | Audiences and 'Ethnography': Questions of Practice | 141 |
9 | New Technologies and Domestic Consumption | 158 |
10 | The Popular Culture Debate and Light Entertainment on Television | 175 |
11 | Nostalgia, Revelation and Intimacy: Tendencies in the Flow of Modern Popular Television | 198 |
12 | 'Go Rikki': Politics, Perversion and Pleasure in the 1990s | 212 |
13 | Real TV: Camcorders, Access and Authenticity | 228 |
14 | The Simple Care and Feeding of the Economic Apparatus: Videotapes of the Modern Traditional Woman | 239 |
15 | Producing (Queer) Communities: Public Access Cable TV in the USA | 251 |
16 | Television and Political Coverage | 264 |
17 | News from Home: A Study of Realism and Melodrama in Brazilian Telenovelas | 275 |
18 | Absolutely Fabulous: Absolutely Feminist? | 287 |
19 | Perform, Educate, Entertain: Ingredients of the Cookery Programme Genre | 301 |
20 | Chaos, Order and Plastic Boxes: The Significance of Videotapes for the People who Collect Them | 315 |
Index | 327 |