Understanding Television

by Andrew Goodwin and Garry Whannel

Book Overview

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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041501672X
• ISBN13: 9780415016728
• Release Date: May 1990
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.7"