Television Studies: The Key Concepts (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780415371506)

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.

Author: Ben Calvert, Neil Casey, Bernadette Casey
ISBN-10: 0415371503
ISBN-13: 9780415371506
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 07/23/2007
Pages: 347
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.45h x 5.53w x 1.01d