Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This directory consists of an alphabetical ordering of television-related categories. For each category, a brief conceptual overview is presented, followed by a list of relevant research or lecture topic suggestions and a bibliography of selected print sources (mostly books). Users should appreciate the directory as a reference tool intended solely as as guide to studying television and not as an end in itself. As such, the categories herein are not necessarily mutually exclusive; nor are the overviews, topic suggestions, and bibliographies meant to be comprehensive. Instead, this publication is intended to inform broadly, to stimulate critical thinking, and to serve as a catalyst for further inquiry.An Additional Sources section is included at the end of the directory. General reference books, relevant indexes and databases, scholarly journals, popular magazines, newspapers, and trade publications are listed. Libraries and museums containing special television-related collections are also noted.

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Library Journal Review

This slim volume offers over two dozen chapters of topics relating to the study of television, from "Advertising" to "Women." Each chapter opens with a few bland paragraphs outlining the topic, followed by a short selection of spin-off concepts and a wide-ranging resource list made up mostly of books. The book concludes with a modest bibliography of additional sources. Aimed squarely at an academic audience, this book will find favor mostly in libraries with limited access to online databases and catalogs. For undergraduate collections.-Thomas Wiener, formerly with "American Film" (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.