An Introduction to Television Studies

by Jonathan Bignell, Faye Woods

This comprehensive textbook, now substantially updated for its fourth edition, provides students with a framework for understanding the key concepts and main approaches to Television Studies, including audiences, representation, industry and global television, as well as the analytical study of individual programmes. This new edition reflects the significant changes the television industry is undergoing in the streaming era with an explosion of new content and providers, whilst also identifying how many existing practices have endured. The book includes a glossary of key terms, with each chapter suggesting further reading. New and updated material With individual chapters addressing television style and form, narrative, histories, industries, genres and formats, realities, production, audiences, representation and identity, and quality, this book is essential reading for both students and scholars of Television Studies.

Genres: Tv

336 pages, Paperback

First published September 19, 2007

Reviews

[Andrew Corsini · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was more heavy-going and depressing than I remembered -- or had been expecting -- with the pages seemingly divided between The War on Terror, 9/11 and -- worst of all -- reality TV. There's even a chart informing us the viewing figures for 9/11 across seven networks. What Bignell is interested in -- really interested in -- is how television as a mass-market entertainment medium intersects with what at first seems like ice-cold unmarketable global news; in fact, it all becomes absorbed in the same stream.