Vande Berg, Leah R.

Critical approaches to television / Leah R. Vande Berg, Lawrence A. Wenner, Bruce E. Gronbeck. - 2nd ed. - Boston, Mass. : Houghton Mifflin, c2004. - xxii, 532 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Preface. - Pt. 1. Theoretical and critical foundations. Ch. 1. The context for criticism: television and society. Ch. 2. Foundations of television criticism. Ch. 3. Critical approaches to television discourse: an overview. Ch. 4. Writing television criticism. - Pt. 2. Text-centered critical approaches. Ch. 5. Semiotic/structural criticism. Ch. 6. Genre criticism. Ch. 7. Rhetorical criticism. Ch. 8. Narrative criticism. - Pt. 3. Producer-centered approaches. 9. Auteur criticism. Ch. 10. Production context criticism. Ch. 11. Ideological criticism. - Pt. 4. Reception-centered approaches. Ch. 12. Reader-oriented criticism. Ch. 13. Audience ethnographic criticism. Ch. 14. Cultural criticism: general approaches. - Ch. 15. Cultural criticism: Mythic, feminist, and psychoanalytical approaches. - Pt. 5. Ethics and the critical approach. Ch. 16. Television, thicis, and criticism. - Index.

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