An Introduction to Television Studies - Couverture souple

Bignell, Jonathan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0415598176 ISBN 13 : 9780415598170

Editeur : Routledge, 2012

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jonathan Bignell is Professor of Television and Film at the University of Reading. He is the author of Beckett on Screen: The Television Plays, Media Semiotics: An Introduction, Big Brother: Reality TV in the Twenty-first Century and Postmodern Media Culture, and co-author of The Television Handbook, 2nd edition. He is the editor of Writing and Cinema, and joint editor of Popular Television Drama and British Television Drama: Past, Present and Future.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0415598176
• ISBN 13: 9780415598170
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 3
• Nombre de pages: 360
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible