A Companion to Television
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A Companion to Television

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A Companion to Television is a magisterial collection of 31 original essays that charter the field of television studies over the past century Explores a diverse range of topics and theories that have led to television’s current incarnation, and predict its likely future Covers technology and aesthetics, television’s relationship to the state, televisual commerce; texts, representation, genre, internationalism, and audience reception and effects Essays are by an international group of first-rate scholars For information, news, and content from Blackwell's reference publishing program please visit www.blackwellpublishing.com/reference/

Table of Contents:
List of Figures viii Notes on Contributors ix Introduction 1 Janet Wasko Part I Theoretical Overviews 1 The Development of Television Studies 15 Horace Newcomb 2 Critical Perspectives on Television from the Frankfurt School to Postmodernism 29 Doug Kellner Part II Television/History 3 Television and History 51 Paddy Scannell 4 Our TV Heritage: Television, the Archive, and the Reasons for Preservation 67 Lynn Spigel Part III Television/Aesthetics and Production 5 Television as a Moving Aesthetic: In Search of the Ultimate Aesthetic – The Self 103 Julianne H. Newton 6 Locating the Televisual in Golden Age Television 126 Caren Deming 7 Television Production: Who Makes American TV? 142 Jane M. Shattuc Part IV Television/The State and Policy 8 Who Rules TV? States, Markets, and the Public Interest 157 Sylvia Harvey 9 Public Broadcasting and Democratic Culture: Consumers, Citizens, and Communards 174 Graham Murdock 10 Culture, Services, Knowledge: Television between Policy Regimes 199 Stuart Cunningham Part V Television/Commerce 11 Television Advertising as Textual and Economic Systems 217 Matthew P. McAllister 12 Watching Television: A Political Economic Approach 238 Eileen R. Meehan 13 Keeping “Abreast” of MTV and Viacom: The Growing Power of a Media Conglomerate 256 Jack Banks 14 The Trade in Television News 270 Andrew Calabrese Part VI Television/Programming, Content, and Genre 15 Configurations of the New Television Landscape 291 Albert Moran 16 The Study of Soap Opera 308 Christine Geraghty 17 The Shifting Terrain of American Talk Shows 324 Jane M. Shattuc 18 Television and Sports 337 Michael R. Real 19 “Where the Past Comes Alive”: Television, History, and Collective Memory 361 Gary R. Edgerton 20 “How Will You Make it on Your Own?”: Television and Feminism Since 1970 379 Bonnie J. Dow 21 Television and Race 395 Sasha Torres Part VII Television/The Public and Audiences 22 Television, Public Spheres, and Civic Cultures 411 Peter Dahlgren 23 Television and Public Opinion 433 Justin Lewis 24 Reality TV: Performance, Authenticity, and Television Audiences 449 Annette Hill 25 A Special Audience? Children and Television 468 David Buckingham Part VIII Television/Alternative Challenges 26 Local Community Channels: Alternatives to Corporate Media Dominance 489 DeeDee Halleck Part IX International Television/Case Studies 27 Latin American Commercial Television: “Primitive Capitalism” 503 John Sinclair 28 Television in China: History, Political Economy, and Ideology 521 Yuezhi Zhao and Zhenzhi Guo 29 Japanese Television: Early Development and Research 540 Shunya Yoshimi 30 Change and Transformation in South African Television 558 Ruth Teer-Tomaselli 31 Television in the Arab East 580 Nabil H. Dajani Index 602


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781405198776
  • Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 37 mm
  • Width: 172 mm
  • ISBN-10: 140519877X
  • Publisher Date: 04 Dec 2009
  • Height: 247 mm
  • No of Pages: 656
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 1125 gr


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