Television Studies: The Key Concepts (Routledge Key Guides)

Calvert, Ben

ISBN 10: 0415371503 / ISBN 13: 9780415371506

Published by Routledge, 2007

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Television Studies: The Key Concepts (Routledge Key Guides)
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415371503
• ISBN 13: 9780415371506
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 390 grams

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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