Product Description: 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...read more

Covers various aspects of television studies such as: theoretical perspectives which have shaped the study of television - Marxism, semiology and feminism; concepts which have shaped the study of television - narrative, representation and objectivity; television genres - soap opera, news and science fiction; and more.