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Television Culture
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 37.95A comprehensive introduction to television studies. Fiske analyses both the economic and cultural aspects of television and investigates it in terms of both theory and text based criticism. more...
Broadcasting and New Media Policies in Western Europe
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 170.00Murdoch, Maxwell, Hersant, Berlusconi, Bertelsmann, Springer and Turner ... in the 1980s new actors emerged to exploit the opportunities in European broadcasting, provided by the new technologies of satellite and cable. Dramatic political, economic and cultural consequences were promised and are already being addressed by public policy. This book... more...
Radio Handbook
Routledge 2002; US$ 34.95This comprehensive guide to radio, completely rewritten for its second edition, examines components from music to news, from phone-ins to sports programmes, as well as offering advice on working in radio. more...
Television
Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 21.95Television: Technology and Cultural Form was first published in 1974, long before the dawn of multi-channel TV, or the reality and celebrity shows that now pack the schedules. Yet Williams' analysis of television's history, its institutions, programmes and practices, and its future prospects, remains remarkably prescient. Williams stresses the... more...
'Dear BBC'
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 37.00Drawing on the diverse views of over 1,300 children in the UK between the ages of 6 and 12, 'Dear BBC' discusses key controversies in the public sphere about children's relationship with the media, especially television drama. This engaging and accessible book will appeal to a broad audience. more...
Big Brother
Palgrave Macmillan 2005; US$ 41.00Jonathan Bignell presents a wide-ranging analysis of the television phenomenon of the early twenty-first century: Reality TV, exploring its cultural and political meanings, explaining the genesis of the form and its relationship to contemporary television production, and considering how it connects with, and breaks away from, factual and fictional... more...
Target - Prime Time
Oxford University Press 2006; US$ 19.95Offering the first book-length exploration of network television's relations with advocacy groups, Kathryn C. Montgomery presents a comprehensive picture of the impact of organized pressure on prime-time TV. She vividly describes, for example, how the Catholic Church campaigned against Maude's abortion on the TV show, Maude; how outraged actors mobilized... more...
Programme Making for Radio
Taylor and Francis 2006; US$ 32.95Programme Making for Radio offers trainee radio broadcasters and their instructors focused practical guidelines to the professional techniques applied to the making of radio shows, explaining how specific radio programmes are made and the conventions and techniques required to produce them. This book describes how and why these methods are applied... more...
Broadcasters and Citizens in Europe
Intellect 2006; US$ 10.00Broadcasting is arguably the most influential and powerful industry operating today. The media impose an inescapable presence in contemporary life and infuse all areas of public communication. But what is the quality of the relationship between ?broadcaster? and ?citizen?? Do the media and media authorities take the audience's interests seriously into... more...
Write to TV
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 27.95Learn to craft smart, original scripts and teleplays for a variety of television formats, including comedy, animation, drama, movies of the week, pilots, reality television, TV news magazine, and children's programming. Using the tools the author provides: checklists, sample outlines and treatments for each format, sample script pages, war stories... more...









