Burton, Graeme

Taking television : an introduction to the study of television / Graeme Burton - London : New York : Arnold ; Co-published in the United States of America by Oxford University Press, 2000. - xii, 319 p. ; 24 cm.

Contents : 1. What do you mean, television studies? - 2. Critical approaches to television studies - 3. Institutions and power : the British television industries - 4. Television product : points of contact - 5. Television, narrative and form - 6. Television news - 7. Television and realism - 8. Television and representations - 9. Audiences, meanings and effects - 10. British television : regulation, censorship and constraint - 11. Television history - 12. Television futures

"The study of television is central to media, communication and cultural courses. This new textbook by the author of "More Than Meets the Eye" introduces students to key approaches to television study, emphasizing culturalist, postmodernist and gender perspectives and explaining challenging concepts sucjh as ideology, institution and audience with plenty of concrete examples and illustrations" - Back cover

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