Bookedited by Andrew Goodwin and Garry Whannel.
Summary: Offers an introduction to issues of television broadcasting. It examines programme categories like news, drama-documentary, sitcom, and soap-opera, and discusses the history, business, audiences and ideologies of television. This book should be of interest to students and teachers of media and communication studies. Nielsen 9780415016711 20160527 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 organization of television, its audiences and its future. It also looks at some key conceptual debates about hegemony in contemporary television. Nielsen 9780415016728 20160528