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Tables of Contents for Television
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
xi
Acknowledgements
xii
Part I Introduction to Television
Introduction to Television
3
4
Television is a Twentieth-century Phenomenon
3
2
Sources
5
2
John Ellis and `The Television Experience'
7
6
Broadcast Television as Sound and Image
7
3
Exercises and Essays
10
1
Source
10
3
History of Television
13
14
Introduction
13
3
Television in the 1950s
16
1
Television in the 1960s
17
2
Television in the 1970s and 1980s
19
1
Television in the 1990s
20
2
Exercises and Essays
22
1
Sources
23
4
Part II Introduction to Genre
Introduction to Genre
27
4
Background
27
2
Exercises and Essays
29
1
Source
29
2
Soap Operas
31
22
Soaps - An Historical Overview
31
1
What is Soap?
32
1
Narrative Organization in the Serial
33
1
Scheduling
34
1
Serials v. Series
34
1
The Importance of Soap
34
1
The Attraction of Soap for Television Institutions
35
1
British Soaps
35
1
Coronation Street
36
1
Brookside
37
1
Eastenders
38
1
Production
39
1
Criticisms of the Genre
40
2
A Woman's Genre? Defending `Soap'
42
1
Reading: `Brookside Backs Down Over Lesbian Kiss'
43
1
Exercises and Essays
44
7
Sources
51
2
Situation Comedy
53
14
The Development of British Situation Comedy
53
1
Alternative v. Mainstream
54
2
Sitcom Narrative
56
2
Sitcom and Representation
58
2
The BBC v. The Independent Sector
60
1
British Production Practices
61
2
Exercises and Essays
63
2
Sources
65
2
Game Shows
67
12
Game Shows - An Historical Overview
67
2
The Popularity of Game Shows
69
2
Game Shows - `Ritual, Game, Ritual'
71
2
Criticisms of the Genre
73
1
Exercises and Essays
74
2
Sources
76
3
Police Series
79
12
Introduction to the Genre
79
1
A Concise History of Police Series
79
8
Exercises and Essays
87
2
Sources
89
2
Television News
91
30
What is News?
91
1
News - An Historical Overview
92
4
News Values
96
8
Accuracy, Objectivity, and Balance in Television News
104
2
The Glasgow University Media Group and Bias
106
3
Who Controls News? The Ideology of News Production
109
4
News Narrative
113
1
Production Practices - In the Newsroom
114
2
Exercises and Essays
116
1
Sources
117
4
Documentary
121
18
Introduction
121
1
The Status of Documentary
122
1
Realism
123
2
Realism and Documentary
125
1
Realism and Television `Rhetoric'
126
6
Case Study: Independent Production
132
3
Exercises and Essays
135
1
Sources
136
3
Part III Related Concepts and Debates
Representation and Stereotyping
139
24
Introduction to Representation
139
2
Representation by Type
141
1
Stereotypes
142
2
Content Analysis
144
1
Gender Stereotypes
145
3
Pornography
148
1
Pluralism
149
2
Representation of Age
151
4
Representation of Race
155
2
Other Stereotypes
157
1
Exercises and Essays
158
1
Sources
159
4
Audience
163
16
Introduction
163
1
Female Audiences
164
2
Ethnographic Research
166
2
Encoding and Decoding
168
1
Fiske and `Subversive' Readings
169
1
Audience Positioning and Screen Theory
170
1
Mode of Address
171
1
Audience Power
172
1
Scheduling
173
2
Exercises and Essays
175
2
Sources
177
2
Media Effects
179
20
Historical Background to the Effects Debate
179
1
The `Hypodermic Effect' Model
180
2
Challenges to the `Hypodermic Effect' Model
182
1
Current Effects Research
183
2
Television and Violence
185
2
Children and Television Violence
187
2
Cultural Effects Theories
189
4
`Cultural Norms'
193
1
Exercises and Essays
194
1
Sources
195
4
Public Service Broadcasting and the Future of the BBC
199
14
Introduction
199
2
Public Service v. Commercial Broadcasting
201
1
The British Broadcasting System
201
1
The 1990 Broadcasting Act
202
2
Initial Consequences of the Act
204
2
Public Service v. Commercial Broadcasting Post-1990
206
3
Exercises and Essays
209
1
Sources
210
3
New Technology
213
14
Television
213
2
Video
215
1
Teletext
215
1
Viewdata
216
1
Cable, Satellite and the Information Superhighway
216
3
New Technology - Access and Ownership
219
6
Exercises and Essays
225
1
Sources
225
2
Ideology
227
30
Introduction
227
1
Liberal Political Theory
228
2
Marxist Political Theory
230
9
Ideological Analysis
239
2
Media Imperialism
241
3
Case Study: The Satellite and Islam
244
7
Reading: The Political Influence of Television in the USA
251
1
Exercises and Essays
252
1
Sources
253
4
Semiotics
257
10
Saussure and Sign Systems
257
1
Signs
258
5
Semiotics and Television
263
1
Exercises and Essays
264
1
Sources
265
2
Suggested Reading
267
4
Index
271