Television: a media student's guide
Publisher: Arnold, 1998001: 6663ISBN: 034070604XSubject(s): Media | TelevisionDDC classification: 791.45 MCQItem type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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makes important contributions to the study of the mass media today...user-friendly...easy, yet a thought-provoking read...would serve as a valuable resource tool in any media student's library, from Bombay to Bundaberg.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Preface (p. xi)
- Acknowledgements (p. xii)
- Part I Introduction to Television
- 1 Introduction to Television (p. 3)
- Television is a Twentieth-century Phenomenon (p. 3)
- Sources (p. 5)
- 2 John Ellis and 'the Television Experience' (p. 7)
- Broadcast Television as Sound and Image (p. 7)
- Exercises and Essays (p. 10)
- Source (p. 10)
- 3 History of Television (p. 13)
- Introduction (p. 13)
- Television in the 1950s (p. 16)
- Television in the 1960s (p. 17)
- Television in the 1970s and 1980s (p. 19)
- Television in the 1990s (p. 20)
- Exercises and Essays (p. 22)
- Sources (p. 23)
- Part II Introduction to Genre
- 4 Introduction to Genre (p. 27)
- Background (p. 27)
- Exercises and Essays (p. 29)
- Source (p. 29)
- 5 Soap Operas (p. 31)
- Soaps - An Historical Overview (p. 31)
- What is Soap? (p. 32)
- Narrative Organization in the Serial (p. 33)
- Scheduling (p. 34)
- Serials v. Series (p. 34)
- The Importance of Soap (p. 34)
- The Attraction of Soap for Television Institutions (p. 35)
- British Soaps (p. 35)
- Coronation Street (p. 36)
- Brookside (p. 37)
- Eastenders (p. 38)
- Production (p. 39)
- Criticisms of the Genre (p. 40)
- A Woman's Genre? Defending 'Soap' (p. 42)
- Reading: 'Brookside Backs Down Over Lesbian Kiss' (p. 43)
- Exercises and Essays (p. 44)
- Sources (p. 51)
- 6 Situation Comedy (p. 53)
- The Development of British Situation Comedy (p. 53)
- Alternative v. Mainstream (p. 54)
- Sitcom Narrative (p. 56)
- Sitcom and Representation (p. 58)
- The BBC v. The Independent Sector (p. 60)
- British Production Practices (p. 61)
- Exercises and Essays (p. 63)
- Sources (p. 65)
- 7 Game Shows (p. 67)
- Game Shows - An Historical Overview (p. 67)
- The Popularity of Game Shows (p. 69)
- Game Shows - 'Ritual, Game, Ritual' (p. 71)
- Criticisms of the Genre (p. 73)
- Exercises and Essays (p. 74)
- Sources (p. 76)
- 8 Police Series (p. 79)
- Introduction to the Genre (p. 79)
- A Concise History of Police Series (p. 79)
- Exercises and Essays (p. 87)
- Sources (p. 89)
- 9 Television News (p. 91)
- What is News? (p. 91)
- News - An Historical Overview (p. 92)
- News Values (p. 96)
- Accuracy, Objectivity, and Balance in Television News (p. 104)
- The Glasgow University Media Group and Bias (p. 106)
- Who Controls News? The Ideology of News Production (p. 109)
- News Narrative (p. 113)
- Production Practices - In the Newsroom (p. 114)
- Exercises and Essays (p. 116)
- Sources (p. 117)
- 10 Documentary (p. 121)
- Introduction (p. 121)
- The Status of Documentary (p. 122)
- Realism (p. 123)
- Realism and Documentary (p. 125)
- Realism and Television 'Rhetoric' (p. 126)
- Case Study: Independent Production (p. 132)
- Exercises and Essays (p. 135)
- Sources (p. 136)
- Part III Related Concepts and Debates
- 11 Representation and Stereotyping (p. 139)
- Introduction to Representation (p. 139)
- Representation by Type (p. 141)
- Stereotypes (p. 142)
- Content Analysis (p. 144)
- Gender Stereotypes (p. 145)
- Pornography (p. 148)
- Pluralism (p. 149)
- Representation of Age (p. 151)
- Representation of Race (p. 155)
- Other Stereotypes (p. 157)
- Exercises and Essays (p. 158)
- Sources (p. 159)
- 12 Audience (p. 163)
- Introduction (p. 163)
- Female Audiences (p. 164)
- Ethnographic Research (p. 166)
- Encoding and Decoding (p. 168)
- Fiske and 'Subversive' Readings (p. 169)
- Audience Positioning and Screen Theory (p. 170)
- Mode of Address (p. 171)
- Audience Power (p. 172)
- Scheduling (p. 173)
- Exercises and Essays (p. 175)
- Sources (p. 177)
- 13 Media Effects (p. 179)
- Historical Background to the Effects Debate (p. 179)
- The 'Hypodermic Effect' Model (p. 180)
- Challenges to the 'Hypodermic Effect' Model (p. 182)
- Current Effects Research (p. 183)
- Television and Violence (p. 185)
- Children and Television Violence (p. 187)
- Cultural Effects Theories (p. 189)
- 'Cultural Norms' (p. 193)
- Exercises and Essays (p. 194)
- Sources (p. 195)
- 14 Public Service Broadcasting and the Future of the BBC (p. 199)
- Introduction (p. 199)
- Public Service v. Commercial Broadcasting (p. 201)
- The British Broadcasting System (p. 201)
- The 1990 Broadcasting Act (p. 202)
- Initial Consequences of the Act (p. 204)
- Public Service v. Commercial Broadcasting Post-1990 (p. 206)
- Exercises and Essays (p. 209)
- Sources (p. 210)
- 15 New Technology (p. 213)
- Television (p. 213)
- Video (p. 215)
- Teletext (p. 215)
- Viewdata (p. 216)
- Cable, Satellite and the Information Superhighway (p. 216)
- New Technology - Access and Ownership (p. 219)
- Exercises and Essays (p. 225)
- Sources (p. 225)
- 16 Ideology (p. 227)
- Introduction (p. 227)
- Liberal Political Theory (p. 228)
- Marxist Political Theory (p. 230)
- Ideological Analysis (p. 239)
- Media Imperialism (p. 241)
- Case Study: The Satellite and Islam (p. 244)
- Reading: The Political Influence of Television in the USA (p. 251)
- Exercises and Essays (p. 252)
- Sources (p. 253)
- 17 Semiotics (p. 257)
- Saussure and Sign Systems (p. 257)
- Signs (p. 258)
- Semiotics and Television (p. 263)
- Exercises and Essays (p. 264)
- Sources (p. 265)
- Suggested Reading (p. 267)
- Index (p. 271)
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