Understanding Television
Author | : Andrew Goodwin |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2005-07-20 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781134979547 |
ISBN-13 | : 1134979541 |
Rating | : 4/5 (541 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Understanding Television by : Andrew Goodwin
Download or read book Understanding Television written by Andrew Goodwin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-20 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding Television offers an introduction to some of the issues of television broadcasting and its main genres. It examines a number of programme categories, such as news, drama-documentary, sit-com, soap opera, sport and quizzes, and discusses aspects of the history of the organisation of television, its audiences and its future; it also looks at some key conceptual debates about hegemony in contemporary television