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9781844572182: The Television Genre Book

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ISBN 10 : 1844572188 ISBN 13 : 9781844572182

Editeur : BFI Publishing, 2008

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The Television Genre Book Offers a comprehensive introduction to television genre, addressing genre as a concept and key television genres, including drama, comedy, crime series, news and reality TV, with case studies of classic and contemporary TV programmes and contributions from leading TV scholars. Full description

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Pr�sentation de l'�diteur :

Genre is central to understanding the industrial context and the visual form of television. This new edition of a key textbook brings together leading international scholars to provide an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the debates, issues and concerns of television genre.

'The Television Genre Book' is structured in eleven sections which introduce the concept of 'genre' itself and how it has been understood in television studies, and then address in turn key televisual genres: drama, soap opera, comedy, news, documentary, reality television, children's television, animation, prime time and day time.

The discussion is illustrated throughout with case studies of classic and contemporary programming from each genre, ranging from The Sopranos to Bleak House and from Monty Python's Flying Circus to South Park. The second edition features new sections on reality tv, animation, prime time and day time tv, and new case studies of recent shows such as 24, CSI, The Office and The X Factor.

The second edition includes selected guides to further reading and a full bibliography.

Contributors: William Boddy, Frances Bonner, Stella Bruzzi, David Buckingham, Rod Brookes, Lez Cooke, John Corner, Glen Creeber, Marie Messenger-Davies, Kevin Donnelly, Jon Dovey, Jane Feuer, John Hartley, Jackie Harrison, Luke Hockley, Jason Jacobs, Cathy Johnson, Justin Lewis, Janet MacCabe, Anna McCarthy, Toby Miller, Brett Mills, Jason Mittell, Rachel Moseley, Steve Neale, Robin Nelson, Tom O'Malley, Adrian Page, Jane Roscoe, Jane Shattuc, Thomas Tufte, John Tulloch, Graeme Turner, Paul Wells.

Biographie de l'auteur :

The Editor: Glen Creeber is Senior Lecturer in Film and Television at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He is the author of Serial Television (2004), editor of Tele-Visions: An Introduction to Studying Television (2006) and of a study of The Singing Detective in the BFI TV Classics series (2007).

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