"Dystopia is alive and well in contemporary American society, and not least of all on the small screen. Long studied as a mass means of shrouding the headlines and the nightly news in affect in order to render intelligible an increasingly chaotic and terrifying world (removing a…
"Dystopia is alive and well in contemporary American society, and not least of all on the small screen. Long studied as a mass means of shrouding the headlines and the nightly news in affect in order to render intelligible an increasingly chaotic and terrifying world (removing a…
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 a…
'An Introduction to Television Studies' is a comprehensive introduction to the field. It provides resources for thinking about key aspects and introduces institutional, textual, cultural, economic, production and audience-centred ways of looking at television.
<P></P><P>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,…
A critical history of the first six decades of the television era traces television's evolution from an immobile piece of furniture with limited sponsored programming to a diverse, on-demand content provider.
In just a few years, what used to be an immobile piece of living room furniture, which one had to sit in front of at appointed times in order to watch sponsored programming on a finite number of channels, morphed into a glowing cloud of screens with access to a near-endless supp…
In just a few years, what used to be an immobile piece of living room furniture, which one had to sit in front of at appointed times in order to watch sponsored programming on a finite number of channels, morphed into a glowing cloud of screens with access to a near-endless supp…
Channeling cultures: television studies from India
Television is probably the most important mass medium in India today. In this pioneering volume of television studies, reputed scholars from across the globe address a series of questions that help us gain a deeper understanding of its nature and function within contemporary Ind…
Channeling cultures: television studies from India
This is a seminal collection of essays on regional, national and global itineraries of Indian television in the twenty-first century. At a time when the television landscape in India is undergoing a second wave of change with compulsory digitisation, new interactivity and conver…
Channeling cultures: television studies from India
'Canadian Television: text and context' explores the creation and circulation of entertainment television in Canada from the interdisciplinary perspective of television studies. ... It surveys the commercial and technological imperatives of the Canadian television industry, the …
'Canadian Television: text and context' explores the creation and circulation of entertainment television in Canada from the interdisciplinary perspective of television studies. ... It surveys the commercial and technological imperatives of the Canadian television industry, the …