Television Studies

  • Television Studies: The Key Concepts
    By Neil Casey, Justin Lewis, Ben Calvert

    ——(1992b) 'The price is right but the moments are sticky: television quiz shows and popular culture', in D.Strinati and S.Wagg (eds) Come On Down? Popular Media Culture in Post-War Britain, ... Williams, K. (1997) Get Me a Murder a Day!

  • Television Studies: The Key Concepts
    By Neil Casey, Justin Lewis, Ben Calvert

    stereotyping by reflecting the whole of the black community (in Mercer's example), rather than just certain aspects of it. Mercer takes issue with both of these strategies (what is the 'real black commu- nity'? what is a 'positive ...

  • Television Studies: The Key Concepts
    By Neil Casey, Justin Lewis, Ben Calvert

    ... tends to lump people of colour together, obliterating ethnic, class or gender differences. Mercer (1994), reflecting on developments in the politics of ethnic representation, suggests that two common strategies have emerged ...

  • Television Studies
    By Jonathan Gray, Amanda D. Lotz

    Or it might probe deep into a narrative, asking after the effect of House's practice of “false starts” — whereby, for example, a character falling over clutching her chest might prove a red herring, with her brother's ensuing illness ...

  • Television Studies: The Key Concepts
    By Neil Casey, Justin Lewis, Ben Calvert

    Clark, D. (1995) 'Commodity lesbianism', in G.Dines and J.M.Humez (eds) (1995) Gender, Race and Class in Media, Thousand Oaks and London: Sage. Clarke, A. (1986) '“This is not the boy scouts”: television police series and definitions of ...

  • Television Studies: The Key Concepts
    By Neil Casey, Justin Lewis, Ben Calvert

    Television Studies: The Key Concepts is the definitive reference guide to an area of rapidly expanding academic interest.

  • Television Studies
    By Jonathan Gray, Amanda D. Lotz

    in Christine Geraghty and David Lusted (eds), The Television Studies Book (London: Arnold, 1998), pp. 95—113 (p. 95). Lynn Spigel, “Introduction,” in Lynn Spigel and Jan Olsson (eds), Television after TV: Essays on a Medium in ...

  • Television Studies: The Basics
    By Toby Miller

    Topics covered include: broadcasting history and technology institutions and ownership genre and content audiences Complete with global case studies, questions for discussion, and suggestions for further reading, this is an invaluable and ...

  • Television Studies
    By Jonathan Gray, Amanda D. Lotz

    26 In other words, the process of viewing is always a potentially transformative event, one that can change the nature of the program being watched. Audience research, therefore, was not simply about seeing whether one's predictions for ...

  • Television Studies
    By Toby Miller

    Television is now a major area of study. This text is the first to outline the theories and approaches to the study of the medium in a systematic form for...

  • Television Studies: The Basics
    By Toby Miller

    Topics covered include: broadcasting history and technology institutions and ownership genre and content audiences Complete with global case studies, questions for discussion, and suggestions for further reading, this is an invaluable and ...

  • Television Studies: The Basics
    By Toby Miller

    Television Studies: The Basics examines the major theories and debates surrounding the production and reception of television over the years and considers the role and future of this powerful medium.

  • Television Studies: Textual Analysis
    By Robert Thompson, Gary C. Burns

    Burns and Thompson help to remedy the lack of a forum for current research on television by bringing together, in this volume, some of the best recent research in television...

  • Television Studies: The Key Concepts

    Television Studies: The Key Concepts is the definitive reference guide to an area of rapidly expanding academic interest.