Understanding Television (Studies in Culture and Communication)

by Andrew Goodwin (Editor), Garry Whannel (Contributor), Garry Whannel (Contributor), Andrew Goodwin (Editor)

• Used

  Paperback
  1990

  $3.65

  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

• New

  Paperback
  1990

  $39.85

  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