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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Andrew CrisellPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: Red Globe Press Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.297kg ISBN: 9780333964095ISBN 10: 0333964098 Pages: 200 Publication Date: 30 March 2006 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Undergraduate Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: Awaiting stock ![]() Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction PART I: THE FOUNDATIONS OF MODERN TELEVISION Birth and Infancy: 1884 1954 The Years of Duopoly: 1955 1982 Proliferation and Deregulation: the 1970s Onwards Modern Television: Policies and Practices PART II: TELEVISION GENRES News and Current Affairs Documentary and Features Forms of Infotainment SportDrama and Film Comedy and Light Entertainment PART III: TELEVISION CULTURE Television: Audience Uses and Effects Globalisation and Localism Television, Theatricality and Public Life Conclusion Bibliography.Reviews'This is a well timed text...The book's split into three sections: The foundations of modern television; Television genres; Television Culture. The strength of Crisell's book lies particularly in the first two sections.' - Nick Lacey, Media Education Association, Newsletter December 2006 '...a succinct, lucidly written analysis...' European Journal of Communication ...his strength is to bring into focus the sub-field and to reaffirm that there is a major area of study that now more than ever should not be cast aside because of overheated claims about a changing technological environment. He reminds us that television, as we have understood it thus far, has not gone away. ' European Journal of Communication 'This is a well timed text...The book's split into three sections: The foundations of modern television; Television genres; Television Culture. The strength of Crisell's book lies particularly in the first two sections.' - Nick Lacey, Media Education Association, Newsletter December 2006 '...a succinct, lucidly written analysis...' European Journal of Communication ...his strength is to bring into focus the sub-field and to reaffirm that there is a major area of study that now more than ever should not be cast aside because of overheated claims about a changing technological environment. He reminds us that television, as we have understood it thus far, has not gone away. ' European Journal of Communication Author InformationANDREW CRISELL is Professor of Broadcasting at Sunderland University, UK. He is the author of Understanding Radio (Routledge, 1994) and Introductory History of British Broadcasting (Routledge, 2002), and the editor of Music Box: Radio Cultures and Communities in a Multi-Media World (Berghahn, 2004). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |