Television Studies The Key Concepts
Television Studies: The Key Concepts by Ben Calvert is a comprehensive reference guide published by Routledge in 2008, featuring 345 pages in English. This edition serves as an essential resource for those interested in the rapidly expanding field of television studies, covering a variety of theoretical perspectives, concepts, genres, and methods that shape the understanding of television.
Readers will find an exploration of key topics such as narrative, representation, and bias, alongside discussions of television genres like soap operas and science fiction. The book also addresses relevant social, economic, and political phenomena, including ownership and social policy, making it a valuable tool for students and scholars in media studies and social sciences.
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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.
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