Product Description: Raymond Williams's personal sociological critique of television is presented here through reprinting articles written in "The Listener" between 1968 and 1972. This book should be of interest to students and teachers of media studies.

Product Description: Branding Television examines why and how the UK and US television industries have turned towards branding as a strategy in response to the rise of satellite, cable and digital television, and new media, such as the internet and mobile phone...read more

Product Description: Digital TV offers many advantages over analog TV, but the transition process is complex and costly. This book explains how the process is unfolding in the U.S. and Britain and explores the changes in the legal framework and the industry structure associated with it...read more

This book attempts to provide an insight into the inner workings of the television industry. This book focuses on the essential elements of the industry: the policy and regulatory frameworks; and the swiftly changing world of video production technology, all of which provides the backdrops against which broadcasters shape and sell their products.

Providing an inside look at the cultural assumptions and business practices of television merchants, this book argues that the market in television programs responds principally to institutional needs, rather than to the wishes of the viewing public or the skills of television's creative artists.

Product Description: This work explores how American programmes have become an important part of British television culture since the 1950's, moving from schedule fillers to cornerstones and 'must see' attractions. The book analyses popular and industrial discourses, the changing roles of such programmes on British screens and interviews with key British broadcasters...read more

Product Description: While most television textbooks concentrate on areas such as institutions, audiences and genre, Interpreting Television takes a radical approach that returns to the currently under-explored textual aspects of television. Continuing and responding to work begun by John Ellis in Visible Fictions and Raymond Williams in Television, Technology and Cultural Form, the book addresses the formal aspects of television in a lively and accessible manner...read more

Discusses broadcasting institutions, programming practices, and media uses in England and the U.S. to uncover relationships between the technology and socio-cultural importance of television

The Intertext series has been specifically designed to meet the needs of contemporary English Language Studies. Working with Texts: A Core Introduction to Language Analysis (2nd edn 2000) is the foundation text, which is complemented by a range of 'satellite' titles. These provide students with hands-on practical experience of textual analysis through special topics and can be used individually or in conjunction with Working with Texts.Aimed at A-Level beginning undergraduate students, The Language of Television:* provides an extensive history of British television* explores a range of genres, from breakfast news to soap operas and 'reality TV'* analyses television scheduling and listings* includes extracts from scripts of popular television programmes: Queer as Folk and The Royle Family* includes a substantial glossary. (view table of contents)

For 'ethnic minorities' in Britain, broadcast TV provides powerful representations of national and 'western' culture. In Southall - which has the largest population of 'South Asians' outside the Indian sub-continent - the VCR furnishes Hindi films, 'sacred soaps' such as the Mahabharata, and family videos of rites of passage, as well as mainstream American films. Television, Ethnicity and Cultural Change examines how TV and video are being used to recreate cultural traditions within the 'South Asian' diaspora, and how they are also catalysing cultural change in this local community.Marie Gillespie explores how young people negotiate between the parental and peer, local and global, national and international contexts and culturess which traverse their lives. Articulating their own preoccupations with television narratives, they both reaffirm and challenge parental traditions, formulating their own aspirations towards cultural change.Marie Gillespie's in-depth study offers an invaluable survey of how cultures are shaped and changed through people's recreative reception of the media.

Product Description: British Television Policy: A Reader provides a forum for the significant policy debates which have informed and shaped television broadcasting since the publication in 1986 of the Peacock Committee Report on the financing of the BBC...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Television had, until recently, a social and cultural purpose. The BBC, and to a lesser extent ITV and Channel 4, were committed by the legal instruments establishing them to develop and maintain these purposes. With the enlargement of the range of choices for viewers by digital television and the provision of access to cable and satellite TV and the Internet, the role of the terrestrial television channels is being diluted...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: OXFORD TELEVISION STUDIES General Editors: Charlotte Brunsdon and John Caughie Oxford Television Studies offers international authors--both established and emerging--an opportunity to reflect on particular problems of history, theory, and criticism which are specific to television and which are central to its critical understanding...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This lively text compares two different media-film and television-in two different countries-Britain and the US-in an attempt to chart the changing relationship between them and their relative status in the cultural sphere. Integrating historical with textual analysis in a fruitful and wide-ranging manner, it focuses particularly on the meaning of television by exploring the medium's construction and representation in the rival cultural technology of film...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Spanning more than two thousand years, from the first emperor, buried with his terra-cotta army in the third century B.C., to the last emperor, enthroned in the Forbidden City as a boy of four in 1911, Chronicle of the Chinese Emperors presents the entire history of this vast and still mysterious region through the stories of its all-powerful rulers...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The importance of contemporary television broadcasting for the shaping and development of national cultures and identities is increasingly evident. Television as the privileged medium for the dissemination of information and for mass entertainment has irreversibly altered the manner in which nations perceive themselves and each other...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: First published in 1980, this compact introduction to television broadcasting as an industry offers jargon-free analysis of every many aspects of broadcasting.

Product Description: The 1990's were a decade of uncertainty and change in British Television. ITV was restructured, independent production grew extensively and the BBC charter was renegotiated. This collection, written by those in the industry as well as outside commentators, examines the implications of these changes and raises key questions for the future...read more

Product Description: The Television's PA Handbook is an up-to-date, comprehensive introduction to all aspects of the PA's job, with special emphasis on the skills required by the PA in a multi-camera studio gallery. The PA's job is central to programme-making, and touches on every aspect of production...read more

Williams' study of television, first published in 1974, was ahead of its time, introducing ideas the full implications of which we are only now beginning to appreciate. It is now reissued with updating by his son Ederyn.

Product Description: How television is to be financed in the last years of this century is a question of major concern to governments, broadcasters and the private sector. The Economics of Television is a detailed examination of the real costs of television production in the United Kingdom and a critical analysis of those political and economic factors that impinge upon broadcasting's future...read more

Looks at how terrorism is portrayed in the British media, both news and fictional television programs, and discusses whether this coverage supports the government or gives undue influence to terrorist organizations