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Television Studies

Television Studies

Paperback

TelevisionGeneral Drama

ISBN10: 0851708951
ISBN13: 9780851708959
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Jan 26 2003
Pages: 160
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.60 Width: 7.40 Depth: 9.60
Language: English
This work outlines the theories and approaches to the study of television in an accessible form for students. It is divided into four sections - forms of knowledge, audiences, gender and race. It discusses many television texts including 'Star Trek', 'Kung Fu', 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer', 'Xena: Warrior Princess', and 'Sesame Street'. Key figures, debates and institutions include: cultivational analysis; Pierre Bourdieu; the Frankfurt School; Public Service Broadcasting; pharmaceutical advertising; and first peoples television. It is intended as an authoritative guide to the perspectives and theory available to a central area within media and cultural studies.

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