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An Introduction to Television Studies (Volume 1) 2nd Edition

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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:

a glossary of key terms

key terms defined in margins

suggestions for further reading at the end of each chapter

activities for use in class or as assignments

new and updated case studies discussing advertisements such as the Guinness ‘Surfer’ ad, approaches to news reporting, television scheduling, and programmes such as Big Brother and Wife Swap.

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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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.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Routledge; 2nd edition (September 20, 2007)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 368 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0415419182
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0415419185
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.65 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 1 x 10 inches

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I am a Professor at the University of Reading and I publish academic studies about British television history and the methodologies of television and film analysis. Much of my work uses archival sources alongside the detailed study of the audiovisual form and style of films and television programmes. I have often written about Samuel Beckett's media dramas, science fiction TV programmes and children's TV, and I am also interested in comparative work about how television developed differently in the UK, in Europe and in the USA. I studied at Cambridge University and the University of Sussex.