A companion to television
By: edited by Janet Wasko.
Contributors: Wasko, Janet.
Series: Blackwell companions in cultural studies ;; 10
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 627
ISBN-13: 9781405100946
Subjects: Television broadcasting; Television
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The development of television studies / Horace Newcomb; title: Critical perspectives on television from the Frankfurt School to postmodernism / Doug Kellner; title: Television and history / Paddy Scannell; title: Our TV heritage / Lynn Spigel; title: Television as a moving aesthetic / Julianne H. Newton; title: Locating the televisual in golden age television / Caren Deming; title: Television production / Jane M. Shattuc; title: Who rules TV? States, markets, and the public interest / Sylvia Harvey; title: Public broadcasting and democratic culture / Graham Murdock; title: Culture, services, knowledge / Stuart Cunningham; title: Television advertising as textual and economic systems / Matthew P. McAllister; title: Watching television / Eileen R. Meehan; title: Keeping "abreast" of MTV and Viacom / Jack Banks; title: The trade in television news / Andrew Calabrese; title: Configurations of the new television landscape / Albert Moran; title: The study of soap opera / Christine Geraghty; title: The shifting terrain of American talk shows / Jane M. Shattuc; title: Television and sports / Michael R. Real; title: "Where the past comes alive" / Gary R. Edgerton; title: "How will you make it on your own?" / Bonnie J. Dow; title: Television and race / Sasha Torres; title: Television, public spheres, and civic cultures / Peter Dahlgren; title: Television and public opinion / Justin Lewis; title: Reality TV / Annette Hill; title: A special audience? children and television / David Buckingham; title: Local community channels / DeeDee Halleck; title: Latin American commercial television / John Sinclair; title: Television in China / Yuezhi Zhao and Zhenshi Guo; title: Japanese television / Shunya Yoshimi; title: Change and transformation in South African television / Ruth Teer-Tomaselli; title: Television in the Arab East / Nabil H. Dajani.