A Companion to Television

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Janet Wasko
John Wiley & Sons, 21 déc. 2009 - 648 pages
A Companion to Television is a magisterial collection of 31 original essays that charter the field of television studies over the past century
  • Explores a diverse range of topics and theories that have led to television’s current incarnation, and predict its likely future
  • Covers technology and aesthetics, television’s relationship to the state, televisual commerce; texts, representation, genre, internationalism, and audience reception and effects
  • Essays are by an international group of first-rate scholars

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Table des matières

Theoretical Overviews
13
Critical Perspectives on Television from the Frankfurt School
29
TelevisionHistory
49
Television the Archive and the Reasons
67
TelevisionAesthetics and Production
101
Locating the Televisual in Golden Age Television
126
Consumers Citizens
174
Television between Policy Regimes
199
Television History and Collective
361
Television and Feminism
379
Television and Race
395
TelevisionThe Public and Audiences
409
Television and Public Opinion
433
Performance Authenticity and Television Audiences
449
A Special Audience? Children and Television
468
Alternatives to Corporate Media Dominance
489

Television Advertising as Textual and Economic Systems
217
A Political Economic Approach
238
The Growing Power of
256
The Trade in Television News
270
TelevisionProgramming Content and Genre
289
The Study of Soap Opera
308
The Shifting Terrain of American Talk Shows
324
Television and Sports
337
Primitive Capitalism John Sinclair
503
History Political Economy and Ideology
521
Early Development and Research
540
Change and Transformation in South African Television
558
Television in the Arab East
580
Index
602
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À propos de l'auteur (2009)

Janet Wasko is Professor in the School of Communication and Journalism at the University of Oregon. Her many books include Hollywood in the Information Age: Beyond the Silver Screen (1994), Consuming Audiences? Production and Reception in Media Research (1999), Understanding Disney: The Manufacture of Fantasy (2001), and How Hollywood Works (2003).

Informations bibliographiques

TitreA Companion to Television
Blackwell Companions in Cultural Studies
RédacteurJanet Wasko
Éditionillustrée, réimprimée
ÉditeurJohn Wiley & Sons, 2009
ISBN140519877X, 9781405198776
Longueur648 pages
  
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