Study Of Modern Television, A: Thinking Inside The Box

Description:
This essential text provides a detailed account of the complex character of modern television. Covering issues ranging from television's historical development to its impact on culture and society in general, the text provides an insightful analysis of television's strengths and limitations. The book's scope and clarity make it an ideal text for all media students, as well as others, interested in the historical, cultural and social contexts of broadcasting.

Review:
'This is a well timed text...The book's split into three sections: The foundations of modern television; Television genres; Television Culture. The strength of Crisell's book lies particularly in the first two sections.' - Nick Lacey, Media Education Association, Newsletter December 2006 '...a succinct, lucidly written analysis...' European Journal of Communication ...his strength is to bring into focus the sub-field and to reaffirm that there is a major area of study that now more than ever should not be cast aside because of overheated claims about a changing technological environment. He reminds us that television, as we have understood it thus far, has not gone away. ' European Journal of Communication

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: THE FOUNDATIONS OF MODERN TELEVISION Birth and Infancy: 1884 - 1954 The Years of Duopoly: 1955 - 1982 Proliferation and Deregulation: the 1970s Onwards Modern Television: Policies and Practices PART II: TELEVISION GENRES News and Current Affairs Documentary and Features Forms of Infotainment Sport Drama and Film Comedy and Light Entertainment PART III: TELEVISION CULTURE Television: Audience Uses and Effects Globalisation and Localism Television, Theatricality and Public Life Conclusion Bibliography

Author Biography:
ANDREW CRISELL is Professor of Broadcasting at Sunderland University, UK. He is the author of Understanding Radio (Routledge, 1994) and Introductory History of British Broadcasting (Routledge, 2002), and the editor of Music Box: Radio Cultures and Communities in a Multi-Media World (Berghahn, 2004).