Television Books

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81. A History of Early Television

    Edited by Stephen Herbert

    Series: Routledge Library of Media and Cultural Studies

    This three-volume collection reprints two important 1920s/30s books relating to television, and a collection of short articles covering the social, aesthetic and technical aspects of the medium. Items range from 1870s prophecies, experiments and cartoons, to 1930s accounts of the first public...

    Published July 21st 2004 by Routledge
82. Genre and Television

    From Cop Shows to Cartoons in American Culture

    By Jason Mittell

    Genre and Television proposes a new understanding of television genres as cultural categories, offering a set of in-depth historical and critical examinations to explore five key aspects of television genre: history, industry, audience, text, and genre mixing. Drawing on well-known television...

    Published June 17th 2004 by Routledge
83. American Youth Cultures

    Edited by Neil Campbell

    Published May 23rd 2004 by Routledge
84. Understanding Reality Television

    Edited by Su Holmes, Deborah Jermyn

    'Popular Factual Programming' has rapidly come to occupy a place at the forefront of contemporary television culture on an international scale. Tracing the history of reality TV from Candid Camera to The Osbournes, Understanding Reality Television examines a range of programmes which claim to...

    Published December 10th 2003 by Routledge
85. The Television Studies Reader

    Edited by Robert C. Allen, Annette Hill

    The Television Studies Reader brings together key writings in the expanding field of television studies, providing an overview of the discipline and addressing issues of industry, genre, audiences, production and ownership, and representation.The Reader charts the ways in which television and...

    Published December 3rd 2003 by Routledge
86. An Introduction to Television Studies

    By Jonathan Bignell, Jonathan Bignell

    This comprehensive introduction to the field of television studies provides resources for thinking about key aspects of television studies, outlines significant strands of critical work in the field, and includes activities and think points....

    Published October 8th 2003 by Routledge
87. Media, Home and Family

    By Stewart M. Hoover, Lynn Schofield Clark, Diane F. Alters

    Based on extensive fieldwork, this book examines how parents make decisions regulating media use, and how media practices define contemporary family life....

    Published October 6th 2003 by Routledge
88. Reading Television

    2nd Edition

    By John Fiske, John Hartley

    Series: New Accents

    Reading Television was the first book to push the boundaries of television studies beyond the insights offered by cultural studies and textual analysis, creating a vibrant new field of study. Using the tools and techniques in this book, it is possible for everyone with a television set to analyze...

    Published September 17th 2003 by Routledge
89. Television

    Technology and Cultural Form, 3rd Edition

    By Raymond Williams

    Series: Routledge Classics

    Television: Technology and Cultural Form was first published in 1974, long before the dawn of multi-channel TV, or the reality and celebrity shows that now pack the schedules. Yet Williams' analysis of television's history, its institutions, programmes and practices, and its future prospects,...

    Published August 20th 2003 by Routledge
90. Prime Time Animation

    Television Animation and American Culture

    By Carol Stabile

    In September 1960 a television show emerged from the mists of prehistoric time to take its place as the mother of all animated sitcoms. The Flintstones spawned dozens of imitations, just as, two decades later, The Simpsons sparked a renaissance of primetime animation. This fascinating book explores...

    Published February 26th 2003 by Routledge