Television Studies: The Key Concepts
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Television Studies: The Key Concepts

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Television Studies: The Key Concepts

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Television Studies: The Key Concepts is the definitive reference guide to an area of rapidly expanding academic interest. Among those aspects of television studies covered in this comprehensive and up-to-date guide are:

  • theoretical perspectives which have shaped the study of television - Marxism; semiology; feminism
  • concepts which have shaped the study of television - narrative; representation; bias
  • television genres - soap opera; news; science fiction
  • methods used for understanding television - content analysis; audience research
  • relevant social, economic and political phenomena - ownership; social policy.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. TELEVISION STUDIES: THE KEY CONCEPTS: 2ND EDITION
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. INTRODUCTION TO 2ND EDITION
  6. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  7. LIST OF CONCEPTS
  8. ACCESS
  9. ADVERTISING
  10. AGENDA-SETTING
  11. AMERICANISATION
  12. ANIMATION
  13. AUDIENCES
  14. CELEBRITY
  15. CENSORSHIP
  16. CHILDREN AND TELEVISION
  17. CLASS
  18. CODE
  19. COMEDY
  20. COMMERCIAL TELEVISION
  21. COMMUNITY TELEVISION
  22. CONTENT ANALYSIS
  23. CONVENTION
  24. CONVERGENCE
  25. CRIME SERIES
  26. CULTIVATION ANALYSIS
  27. CULTURAL IMPERIALISM
  28. CULTURAL STUDIES
  29. CULTURE
  30. DISCOURSE/DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
  31. DOCUMENTARY
  32. DRAMA
  33. EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION
  34. EFFECTS
  35. ENCODING AND DECODING
  36. ETHNICITY
  37. ETHNOGRAPHY
  38. FAMILY/DOMESTIC VIEWING
  39. FANS
  40. FEMINISM
  41. GAME SHOWS
  42. GENDER
  43. GENRE
  44. GLOBALISATION
  45. HEGEMONY
  46. HISTORY
  47. IDEOLOGY
  48. INSTITUTIONS
  49. INTERTEXTUALITY
  50. LIFESTYLE TELEVISION
  51. MARXISM
  52. MASS CULTURE
  53. MEDIATION
  54. MELODRAMA
  55. MUSIC VIDEO
  56. NARRATIVE
  57. NEW MEDIA
  58. NEWS
  59. OBJECTIVITY
  60. OWNERSHIP
  61. PLEASURE
  62. PLURALISM
  63. POLICY
  64. POLITICAL ECONOMY
  65. POLYSEMY
  66. POSTMODERNISM
  67. POWER
  68. PRODUCTION
  69. PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING
  70. REALISM
  71. REALITY TELEVISION
  72. REGULATION/DEREGULATION
  73. REPRESENTATION
  74. RHETORIC
  75. SCHEDULING
  76. SCIENCE FICTION
  77. SEMIOLOGY/SEMIOTICS
  78. SEX/SEXUALITY
  79. SIGN
  80. SOAP OPERA
  81. SPORT
  82. STEREOTYPES
  83. STRUCTURALISM AND POST-STRUCTURALISM
  84. SYNERGY
  85. TALK SHOWS
  86. TASTE
  87. TECHNOLOGY
  88. TEXT
  89. USES AND GRATIFICATIONS
  90. VIDEO
  91. VIOLENCE
  92. WOMEN IN TELEVISION
  93. YOUTH TELEVISION
  94. Bibliography