An Introduction to Television Studies

by Jonathan Bignell

In this comprehensive textbook, now updated for its third edition, Jonathan Bignell provides students with a framework for understanding the key concepts and main approaches to Television Studies, including audience research, television history and broadcasting policy, and the analytical study of individual programmes.Features glossary of key terms key terms defined in margins suggestions for further reading activities/assignments for use in classNew and updated case studies Home Needs a Harvey' ad approaches to news reporting television scheduling "CSI Crime Scene Investigation" animated cartoon seriesIndividual chapters studying television, television histories, television cultures, television texts and narratives, television genres and formats, television production, television and quality, television realities, television you can't see, television audiences, beyond television.

Genres: Tv

348 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 19, 2007

Reviews

[Andrew Corsini · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was more heavy-going and depressing than I remembered -- or had been expecting -- with the pages seemingly divided between The War on Terror, 9/11 and -- worst of all -- reality TV. There's even a chart informing us the viewing figures for 9/11 across seven networks. What Bignell is interested in -- really interested in -- is how television as a mass-market entertainment medium intersects with what at first seems like ice-cold unmarketable global news; in fact, it all becomes absorbed in the same stream.