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Television: A Media Student's Guide
This text offers an essential companion to the study of television. It provides a clear, student-friendly account of television's brief but influential history, a description of the major television genres, and a summary of concepts and debates related to the field. There are also exercises, essays, readings, and case studies.
288 pages, Hardcover
First published October 1, 1998
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October 4, 2017
Television by McQueen might be useful as a shallow overview. It's mostly factual and a history book, a dense set of objective information rather than anyhow more useful theory I would have expected. That's also why I started my review with "might"; that's because I didn't find it anything worth my time, especially not his endless bragging about the events related to UK and BBC, that is the number one reason I was skipping a lot of pages. He mentions a lot of TV shows as well, making this book nearly impossible for anyone having little or no idea of loads of sitcoms or other TV shows he is trivially describing.
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