This is an introduction to the media industries, a topic that sometimes has its own course but is also incorporated into courses on media criticism, media literacy, and even a basic mass media course where the instructor wishes to teach from topical paperbacks as opposed to a big textbook. The book[...]
* Major short introduction to the field of television studies. * Clearly lays out the birth of this discipline, shows its links with other fields of study and explains key concepts and theoretical debates. * Includes interview material with scholars whose work has defined the field.[...]
"Television Studies" provides an overview of the origins, central ideas, and intellectual traditions of television studies. The book charts the establishment of the field, and examines its various approaches and objects of study.What have been the primary areas of inquiry in television studies? Why [...]
After occupying a central space in American living rooms for the past fifty years, is television, as weve known it, dead? The capabilities and features of that simple box have been so radically redefined that its now nearly unrecognizable. Today, viewers with digital video recorders such as TiVo may[...]
From the meth-dealing but devoted family man Walter White of AMC's Breaking Bad, to the part-time basketball coach, part-time gigolo Ray Drecker of HBO's Hung, depictions of male characters perplexed by societal expectations of men and anxious about changing American masculinity have become standard[...]
Many proclaimed the "end of television" in the early years of the twenty-first century, as capabilities and features of the boxes that occupied a central space in American living rooms for the preceding fifty years were radically remade. In this revised, second edition of her definitive book, Amanda[...]