Understanding television / edited by Andrew Goodwin and Garry Whannel.
Contributor(s): Goodwin, Andrew
| Whannel, Garry.
Material type: 
BookSeries: Studies in culture and communication.Publisher: London : Routledge, 1990Description: x, 192 p. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 0415016711 (hbk); 041501672X (pbk).Subject(s): Television broadcastingDDC classification: 302.2345 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 302.2345 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00028141 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Andrew Goodwin and Garry Whannel -- Public service broadcasting: the history of a concept / Paddy Scannell -- A suitable schedule for the family / Richard Paterson -- TV news: striking the right balance? / Andrew Goodwin -- Points of view / Rosalind Brunt -- F for fake? friction over faction / Paul Kerr -- Box pop: popular television and hegemony / Michael O'Shaughnessy -- Winner takes all: competition / Garry Whannel -- Gendered fictions / Verina Glaessner -- Only when I laugh / Mick Bowes -- Television and black britons / John Tulloch -- Are you receiving me? / Justin Lewis -- Today's television, tomorrow's world / Patrick Hughes.
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