Television Studies: The Key Concepts

Ben Calvert, Neil Casey, Bernadette Casey, Liam French, Justin Lewis

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2007
• Print ISBN: 9780415371490
• eBook ISBN: 9781134195756
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Media Studies

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

• Cover Page
• TELEVISION STUDIES: THE KEY CONCEPTS: 2ND EDITION
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• INTRODUCTION TO 2ND EDITION
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• LIST OF CONCEPTS
• ACCESS
• ADVERTISING
• AGENDA-SETTING
• AMERICANISATION
• ANIMATION
• AUDIENCES
• CELEBRITY
• CENSORSHIP
• CHILDREN AND TELEVISION
• CLASS
• CODE
• COMEDY
• COMMERCIAL TELEVISION
• COMMUNITY TELEVISION
• CONTENT ANALYSIS
• CONVENTION
• CONVERGENCE
• CRIME SERIES
• CULTIVATION ANALYSIS
• CULTURAL IMPERIALISM
• CULTURAL STUDIES
• CULTURE
• DISCOURSE/DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
• DOCUMENTARY
• DRAMA
• EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION
• EFFECTS
• ENCODING AND DECODING
• ETHNICITY
• ETHNOGRAPHY
• FAMILY/DOMESTIC VIEWING
• FANS
• FEMINISM
• GAME SHOWS
• GENDER
• GENRE
• GLOBALISATION
• HEGEMONY
• HISTORY
• IDEOLOGY
• INSTITUTIONS
• INTERTEXTUALITY
• LIFESTYLE TELEVISION
• MARXISM
• MASS CULTURE
• MEDIATION
• MELODRAMA
• MUSIC VIDEO
• NARRATIVE
• NEW MEDIA
• NEWS
• OBJECTIVITY
• OWNERSHIP
• PLEASURE
• PLURALISM
• POLICY
• POLITICAL ECONOMY
• POLYSEMY
• POSTMODERNISM
• POWER
• PRODUCTION
• PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING
• REALISM
• REALITY TELEVISION
• REGULATION/DEREGULATION
• REPRESENTATION
• RHETORIC
• SCHEDULING
• SCIENCE FICTION
• SEMIOLOGY/SEMIOTICS
• SEX/SEXUALITY
• SIGN
• SOAP OPERA
• SPORT
• STEREOTYPES
• STRUCTURALISM AND POST-STRUCTURALISM
• SYNERGY
• TALK SHOWS
• TASTE
• TECHNOLOGY
• TEXT
• USES AND GRATIFICATIONS
• VIDEO
• VIOLENCE
• WOMEN IN TELEVISION
• YOUTH TELEVISION
• Bibliography