Critical Ideas in Television StudiesTelevision has radically reshaped the contours of knowledge and of pleasure in modern society and become a regular subject of scrutiny and argument. This important book, fully accesible to students yet a contribution to international debate, is the first to offer a systematic review of the ideas which have been most influential across a full range of television criticism and research from the first pioneering studies to the most recent theory and analysis. In the course of exploring key ideas, John Corner develops a clear and close engagement with television itself and the way it is changing. After an Introduction which provides a concise overview of how television has been studied and why, ten chapters take key features of the medium in order to raise questions and and assess arguments. With its focused summaries and its scope of reference, Critical Ideas in Television Studies will help the teaching and study of television to enter a new phase of improved clarity and self-awareness. |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
aesthetic analysis argument aspects assessment attention audience become Britain British broadcasting broader Brunsdon Cagney and Lacey channels Chapter character Charlotte Brunsdon cinema commentary commercial context conventions critical debate depiction dimension discussion distinctive documentary domestic drama emphasis engagement enquiry experience F. R. Leavis factors feature fiction film flow focus formats forms function genres ical ideas impact influence instance institutional interview issue John Caughie kinds knowledge Marshall McLuhan mass media McLuhan meaning medium modes narrative narrowcast non-fiction noted para-social particular perspective pleasure political popular culture production programmes questions radical radio range Raymond Williams reception relations relationship Scannell schedule screen seen semiotic sense sequence sexual objectification shift sion soap soap opera social society specific speech strand talk tele television image television studies television's tion values various video cassette recorder viewers viewing visual Williams