Tele-visions: An Introduction to Television Studies

by Creeber, Glen

• ISBN13: 9781844570867
• ISBN10: 184457086X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-05-12
• Publisher: British Film Institute

Summary

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the subject of television studies. This book offers an insight into how television is produced, broadcast, controlled, consumed and critically examined. It is useful to those studying television and the media. Fully illustrated - it includes selected reading guides and bibliographies.

Author Biography

Glen Creeber is a senior lecturer in film and television studies at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. His books include Dennis Potter, Between Two Worlds (1998) and Serial Television: Big Drama on the Small Screen (BFI 2004). He is also editor of The Television Genre Book (BFI 2001), and 50 Key Television Programmes (2004).

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	v
Introduction	1	(11)
Glen Creeber
Defining the Medium: TV Form and Aesthetics	12	(8)
John Ellis
Case Study: Issues in Television Authorship	20	(6)
Catrin Prys
Analysing Television: Issues and Methods in Textual Analysis	26	(12)
Glen Creeber
Case Study: Shot-by-Shot Analysis	38	(6)
Glen Creeber
Decoding Television: Issues of Ideology and Discourse	44	(12)
Glen Creeber
Case Study: An Ideological Analysis of Sky News	56	(4)
Mike Wayne
Analysing Factual TV: How to Study Television Documentary	60	(7)
John Corner
Case Study: Different Documentary Modes: World in Action, Hotel and Wife Swap	67	(7)
John Corner
Analysing TV Fiction: How to Study Television Drama	74	(12)
Robin Nelson
Case Study: Modernism and Postmodernism in Television Drama	86	(7)
Robin Nelson
Television and Its Audience: Issues of Consumption and Reception	93	(7)
Matt Hills
Case Study: Fandom and Fan Studies	100	(7)
Matt Hills
Television and History: Investigating the Past	107	(8)
Jason Jacobs
Case Study: A (Very) Brief History of Television	115	(9)
Jamie Medhurst
Television and Regulation: Examining Institutional Structures	124	(7)
Elan Closs Stephens
Case Study: The BBC and the State	131	(6)
Tom O'Malley
Television and Globalisation: National and International Concerns	137	(9)
John Hartley
Case Study: Indigenous Television	146	(7)
Faye Ginsburg
Lorna Roth
Post TV?: The Future of Television	153	(7)
Kyle Nicholas
Case Study: Television and Convergence	160	(9)
Jamie Sexton
Bibliography	169	(16)
Index	185