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An Introduction to Television Studies

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An Introduction to Television Studies Synopsis

In this comprehensive textbook, now updated for its third 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 include:

  • a glossary of key terms
  • key terms defined in margins
  • suggestions for further reading
  • activities/assignments for use in class

New and updated case studies feature:

  • 'Every Home Needs a Harvey' ad
  • approaches to news reporting
  • television scheduling
  • CSI Crime Scene Investigation
  • animated cartoon series

Individual chapters address: studying television, television histories, television cultures, television texts and narratives, television genres and formats, television production, television and quality, television realities, television you can't see, television audiences, beyond television.

About This Edition

ISBN: 9780415598170
Publication date:
Author: Jonathan Bignell
Publisher: Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 344 pages
Genres: Social and cultural history
Popular culture
Media studies: TV and society

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