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An Introduction to Television Studies Paperback – 31 October 2012

by Jonathan Bignell (Author)
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In this comprehensive textbook, now updated for its third edition, Jonathan Bignell provides students with a framework for understanding the key concepts and main approaches to Television Studies, including audience research, television history and broadcasting policy, and the analytical study of individual programmes.

Features include:

  • a glossary of key terms
  • key terms defined in margins
  • suggestions for further reading
  • activities/assignments for use in class

New and updated case studies feature:

  • ‘Every Home Needs a Harvey’ ad
  • approaches to news reporting
  • television scheduling
  • CSI Crime Scene Investigation
  • animated cartoon series

Individual chapters address: studying television, television histories, television cultures, television texts and narratives, television genres and formats, television production, television and quality, television realities, television you can’t see, television audiences, beyond television.

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  1. Print length
    360 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publication date
    31 October 2012
  4. Dimensions
    17.4 x 2.08 x 24.61 cm
  5. ISBN-10
    0415598176
  6. ISBN-13
    978-0415598170
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Praise for the first and second edition:

"A wonderfully ambitious and clear introduction to television studies for the undergraduate reader." Gill Branston, University of Cardiff, and co-author of The Media Student’s Book

"An excellent introduction to television studies, with helpful accounts of key concepts tied to some engaging discussions of recent shows." David Gauntlett, University of Bournemouth and author of Media, Gender and Identity

"I have no doubt that this work will become a must for all students wishing to study the new and growing discipline of television studies." Paul Rixon, University of Surrey, Roehampton

"…destined to feature prominently on every television student’s preparatory reading wish-list." Deborah Jermyn, University of Surrey, Roehampton and co-editor of Understanding Reality Television

About the Author

Jonathan Bignell is Professor of Television and Film at the University of Reading. He is the author of Beckett on Screen: The Television Plays, Media Semiotics: An Introduction, Big Brother: Reality TV in the Twenty-first Century and Postmodern Media Culture, and co-author of The Television Handbook, 2nd edition. He is the editor of Writing and Cinema, and joint editor of Popular Television Drama and British Television Drama: Past, Present and Future.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Routledge; 3rd edition (31 October 2012)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 360 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0415598176
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0415598170
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 17.4 x 2.08 x 24.61 cm
  • Customer Reviews:
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Jonathan Bignell

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I am a Professor at the University of Reading and I publish academic studies about British television history and the methodologies of television and film analysis. Much of my work uses archival sources alongside the detailed study of the audiovisual form and style of films and television programmes. I have often written about Samuel Beckett's media dramas, science fiction TV programmes and children's TV, and I am also interested in comparative work about how television developed differently in the UK, in Europe and in the USA. I studied at Cambridge University and the University of Sussex.

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not fully explained well... missing topic about the social justice
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5.0 out of 5 stars New and good quality
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 January 2014
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amazing book. great info about tv studies. it is an introductory book about television.one of my favourite books in uni
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