Television: A Media Student's Guide

by David McQueen

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. David McQueen is a Media Studies teacher at Ibri College of Education. 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. "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."— Australian Journalism Review "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."— Australian Journalism Review

288 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1998

Reviews

[Miloš · Rating 2 out of 5]

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.