Television Books

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41. Music in Television

    Channels of Listening

    Edited by James Deaville

    Series: Routledge Music and Screen Media Series

    Music in Television is a collection of essays examining television’s production of meaning through music in terms of historical contexts, institutional frameworks, broadcast practices, technologies, and aesthetics. It presents the reader with overviews of major genres and issues, as well as...

    Published February 27th 2011 by Routledge
42. Transmedia Television

    Audiences, New Media, and Daily Life

    By Elizabeth Evans

    Series: Comedia

    The early years of the twenty-first century have seen dramatic changes within the television industry. The development of the internet and mobile phone as platforms for content directly linked to television programming has offered a challenge to the television set’s status as the sole domestic...

    Published February 13th 2011 by Routledge
43. Media History and the Archive

    Edited by Craig Robertson

    By the time readers encounter academic history in the form of books and articles, all that tends to be left of an author’s direct experience with archives is pages of endnotes. Whether intentionally or not, archives have until recently been largely thought of as discrete collections of documents,...

    Published December 2nd 2010 by Routledge
44. Paranormal Media

    Audiences, Spirits and Magic in Popular Culture

    By Annette Hill

    The paranormal has gone mainstream.Beliefs are on the rise, with almost half of the British population, and two thirds of Americans, claiming to believe in extra sensory perceptions and hauntings. Psychic magazines like Spirit and Destiny, television shows such as Fringe, Ghost Whisperer and Most...

    Published November 2nd 2010 by Routledge
45. The Politics of Reality Television

    Global Perspectives

    Edited by Marwan M. Kraidy, Katherine Sender

    Series: Shaping Inquiry in Culture, Communication and Media Studies

    The Politics of Reality Television encompasses an international selection of expert contributions who consider the specific ways media migrations test our understanding of, and means of investigating, reality television across the globe. The book addresses a wide range of topics, including:...

    Published October 24th 2010 by Routledge
46. Television Culture

    2nd Edition

    By John Fiske

    This revised edition of a now classic text includes a new introduction by Henry Jenkins, explaining ‘Why Fiske Still Matters’ for today’s students, followed by a discussion between former Fiske students Ron Becker, Aniko Bodroghkozy, Steve Classen, Elana Levine, Jason Mittell, Greg Smith and Pam...

    Published September 29th 2010 by Routledge
47. Flow TV

    Television in the Age of Media Convergence

    Edited by Michael Kackman, Marnie Binfield, Matthew Thomas Payne, Allison Perlman, Bryan Sebok

    From viral videos on YouTube to mobile television on smartphones and beyond, TV has overflowed its boundaries. If Raymond Williams' concept of flow challenges the idea of a discrete television text, then convergence destabilizes the notion of television as a discrete object. Flow TV examines...

    Published September 13th 2010 by Routledge
48. Television Personalities

    Stardom and the Small Screen

    By James Bennett

    Television Personalities offers an exciting, engaging approach to studying and understanding the most prominent and popular performers in television and celebrity culture. It is an original, indispensable guide for undergraduate and postgraduate students of media, television and celebrity studies,...

    Published September 6th 2010 by Routledge
49. Television and New Media

    Must-Click TV

    By Jennifer Gillan

    We watch TV on computers, phones, and other mobile devices; television is now online as much as it is "on air." Television and New Media introduces readers to the ways that new media technologies have transformed contemporary broadcast television production, scheduling, distribution, and reception...

    Published August 29th 2010 by Routledge
50. Ordinary Lives

    Studies in the Everyday

    By Ben Highmore

    This new study from Ben Highmore looks at the seemingly banal world of objects, work, daily media, and food, and finds there a scintillating array of passionate experience. Through a series of case studies, and building on his previous work on the everyday, Highmore examines our relationship to...

    Published August 19th 2010 by Routledge