Understanding Television

by Andrew Goodwin (Editor), Garry Whannel (Editor)

Overview

Understanding Television offers an introduction to some of the issues of television broadcasting and its main genres. It examines a number of programme categories, such as news, drama-documentary, sit-com, soap opera, sport and quizzes, and discusses aspects of the history of the organisation of television, its audiences and its future; it also looks at some key conceptual debates about hegemony in contemporary television

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415016728
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/24/1990
Series:	Studies in Culture and Communication
Pages:	204
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Goodwin, Andrew; Whannel, Garry

Table of Contents

Contributors:
Mick Bowes, Rosalind Brunt, Verina Glaessner, Andrew Goodwin, Patrick Hughes, Paul kerr, Justin Lewis, Michael O'Shaughnessy, Richard Paterson, Paddy Scannell, John Tulloch and Garry Whannel

Editorial Reviews

‘All in all, this is a first rate piece of work which admirably accomplishes the main purpose of the Studies in Culture and Communication series as a whole - namely, bridging the gap between the huge body of research available to the more advanced student and what the newcomer needs to get started.' - Media Bulletin

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