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31. Global Television Formats

    Understanding Television Across Borders

    Edited by Tasha Oren, Sharon Shahaf

    Winner of the 2013 SCMS Best Edited Collection Award For decades, television scholars have viewed global television through the lens of cultural imperialism, focusing primarily on programs produced by US and UK markets and exported to foreign markets. Global Television Formats revolutionizes...

    Published November 22nd 2011 by Routledge
32. New Documentary

    A Critical Introduction

    New Documentary: A Critical Introduction provides a comprehensive account of the last two decades of documentary filmmaking in Britain, the US and Europe. Stella Bruzzi's engaging textbook discusses key genres, filmmakers, and issues for the study of non-fiction film and television, including:* key...

    Published November 3rd 2011 by Routledge
33. Branding Television

    By Catherine Johnson

    Series: Comedia

    Branding Television examines why and how the UK and US television industries have turned towards branding as a strategy in response to the rise of satellite, cable and digital television, and new media, such as the internet and mobile phone. This is the first book to offer a sustained critical...

    Published October 19th 2011 by Routledge
34. Legitimating Television

    Media Convergence and Cultural Status

    By Michael Z Newman, Elana Levine

    Legitimating Television: Media Convergence and Cultural Status explores how and why television is gaining a new level of cultural respectability in the 21st century. Once looked down upon as a "plug-in drug" offering little redeeming social or artistic value, television is now said to be in a...

    Published September 7th 2011 by Routledge
35. Media, Culture and Society in Malaysia

    Edited by Yeoh Seng Guan

    Series: Routledge Malaysian Studies Series

    This book presents a comprehensive, full-length analysis of the uses of media and communication technologies by different social actors in Malaysia. Unlike other studies of the media in Malaysia which concentrate on "political economy" or "freedom of the media" approaches, this book focuses on the...

    Published August 16th 2011 by Routledge
36. The Television Handbook

    4th Edition

    By Jeremy Orlebar

    Series: Media Practice

    The Television Handbook is a critical introduction to the practice and theory of television. The book examines the state of television today, explains how television is made and how production is organised, and discusses how critical thinking about programmes and genres can illuminate their...

    Published August 15th 2011 by Routledge
37. Media Globalization and the Discovery Channel Networks

    By Ole J. Mjos

    Series: Routledge Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies

    This book is about the relationship between media and globalization, explored through the unique study of the global expansion of Discovery Communications, spearheaded by the Discovery Channel, one of the world’s largest providers of factual television programming and media content. The book argues...

    Published August 14th 2011 by Routledge
38. Network Nations

    A Transnational History of British and American Broadcasting

    By Michele Hilmes

    In Network Nations, Michele Hilmes reveals and re-conceptualizes the roots of media globalization through a historical look at the productive transnational cultural relationship between British and American broadcasting. Though frequently painted as opposites--the British public service tradition...

    Published August 8th 2011 by Routledge
39. Documentary

    Witness and Self-Revelation

    By John Ellis

    Digital technologies have transformed documentary for both filmmakers and audiences. Documentary: Witness and Self-Revelation takes an audience-centred approach to documentary, arguing that everyday experiences of what it feels like to film and to be filmed have developed a new sophistication and...

    Published July 19th 2011 by Routledge
40. Russian Television Today

    Primetime Drama and Comedy

    By David MacFadyen

    Series: Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series

    Examining the role of dramatized narratives in Russian television, this book stresses the ways in which the Russian government under Putin use primetime television to express a new understanding of what it means to be Russian, answering key questions of national identity for modern Russians in...

    Published March 23rd 2011 by Routledge