Television Studies: The Key Concepts

Television Studies: The Key Concepts is the definitive reference guide to an area of rapidly expanding academic interest. Among those aspects of television studies covered in this comprehensive and up-to-date guide are:

theoretical perspectives which have shaped the study of television

Marxism; semiology; feminism

concepts which have shaped the study of television

narrative; representation; bias

television genres

soap opera; news; science fiction

methods used for understanding television

content analysis; audience research

relevant social, economic and political phenomena

ownership; social policy.