Tv Studies Bundle: The Television Studies Reader

by Robert C. Allen (Editor), Annette Hill (Editor)

The Television Studies Reader brings together key writings in the growing field of television studies, providing an invaluable overview of the development of the field, and addressing issues of industry, genre, audiences, production and ownership, and representation.

The Reader charts the ways in which television and television studies are being redefined to include new and "alternative" forms and technologies such as cable television, direct satellite/digital broadcasting, home video, video art, video/digital applications on the internet, interactive TV, video surveillance, and converging media. It explores the recent boom in reality TV and includes discussions of television programs and practices from around the world. The Reader comprises 44 foundational and cutting-edge articles from an international cast of contributors, situating the study of television in relation both to its global reach and to the many and varied local contexts of its production and reception, and laying out a wide array of approaches to the study of the changing phenomenon of television around the world. The essays are organized in seven themed sections: * Institutions of Television * Spaces of Television * Modes of Television * Making Television * Social Representation on Television * Watching Television * Transforming Television Key features include a comprehensive bibliography and a list of further reading.

656 pages, Paperback

First published December 31, 2003

Reviews

[Richard · Rating 2 out of 5]

Too much emphasis on institutions for my liking. There are plenty of other textbooks dealing with public service broadcasters and modes of television, but given the word 'reader' features in the title I was expecting more analyses and perhaps case studies. However, I enjoyed the essays on race representation and docudramas.
Overall, it was more useful for cultural, rather than media studies.