Television: Critical Methods and Applications, 4th Edition

by Jeremy G. Butler

For nearly two decades, Television: Critical Methods and Applications has served as the foremost guide to television studies. Designed for the television studies course in communication and media studies curricula, Television explains in depth how television programs and commercials are made and how they function as producers of meaning. Author Jeremy G. Butler shows the ways in which camera style, lighting, set design, editing, and sound combine to produce meanings that viewers take away from their television experience. He supplies students with a whole toolbox of implements to disassemble television and read between the lines, teaching them to incorporate critical thinking into their own television viewing. The fourth edition builds upon the pedagogy of previous editions to best accommodate current modes of understanding and teaching television. Highlights of the fourth edition include: With its distinctive approach to examining television, Television is appropriate for courses in television studies, media criticism, and general critical studies.

Genres: Nonfiction

512 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

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[Soroush Janati · Rating 3 out of 5]

What can I say. Nothing.