Television StudiesJohn Wiley & Sons, 15 janv. 2019 - 208 pages Television Studies provides an overview of the origins, central ideas, and intellectual traditions of this exciting field. What have been the primary areas of inquiry in television studies? Why and how did these areas develop? How have scholars studied them? How are they developing? What have been the discipline’s key works? This book answers these questions by tracing the history of television studies right up to the digital present, surveying emerging scholarship, and addressing new questions about the field’s relationship with the digital. The second edition includes an examination of how internet-distributed services such as Netflix have adjusted the stories, industrial practices, and audience experience of television. For all those wondering how to study television, or even why to study television, this new edition of Television Studies will provide a clear and engaging overview of key topics. The book works as a stand-alone introduction and, by placing key works in a broader context, can also provide an excellent basis for an entire course. |
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... of media history in general. For much of its life, though, television studies has been a topically focused subfield within media studies, and it is there that we begin. Television has been with us for seven or eight decades, but an.
... focused on investigating media effects. Significant work in this area predated television, and much of what was understood about media effects was quickly applied to television. Meanwhile, generations of humanities instruction in ...
... focused on attempting to answer questions about the effects of media or their influence on audiences and societies. Early social science approaches saw television as a medium of popular communication in the tradition of radio and ...
... focused on how they constructed and/or maintained ideology and ideas of “common sense,” beauty, or truth in the first place. A wide range of theories and approaches to the study of culture were added to the humanistic tradition by ...
... focusing overmuch on the audience with its examination of media effects in a manner that disregarded the intricacies of the program under analysis, the humanistic tradition outside McLuhan and followers often risked fetishizing the ...