A companion to television / 
edited by Janet Wasko and Eileen Meehan. 
 - Second edition. 
 - 1 online resource 
 - Wiley Blackwell companions to cultural studies ;  20 .
<br/><br/> ABOUT THE AUTHOR<br/>Janet Wasko is the Philip H. Knight chair for Communication Research at the University of Oregon and President of the International Association for Media and Communication Research. She is the author of How Hollywood Works and Hollywood in the Information Age.<br/><br/>Eileen R. Meehan is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Radio, Television, and Digital Media at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. Among her publications are studies of the Nielsen ratings and television's commodity audience, corporate profiles of global media conglomerates, and analyses of media artifacts. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>TABLE OF CONTENTS<br/>Notes on Contributors ix<br/><br/>List of Tables and Figures xvii<br/><br/>Part I Introduction 1<br/><br/>Introduction 3<br/>Janet Wasko and Eileen R. Meehan<br/><br/>Part II Theoretical Overview 15<br/><br/>1 Critical Perspectives on Television from the Frankfurt School to the Politics of Representation 17<br/>Doug Kellner<br/><br/>Part III History 39<br/><br/>2 Our TV Heritage: Tracing the Logics of the Television Archive 41<br/>Lynn Spigel<br/><br/>3 Locating the Televisual in Golden Age Television 63<br/>Caren J. Deming and Deborah V. Tudor<br/><br/>4 The Past is Now Present Onscreen: Television, History, and Collective Memory 79<br/>Gary R. Edgerton<br/><br/>Part IV Industry 105<br/><br/>5 Broadcasting in the Age of Netflix: When the Market is Master 107<br/>Sylvia Harvey<br/><br/>6 The Audiovisual Industry and the Structural Factors of the Television Crisis 129<br/>Giuseppe Richeri<br/><br/>7 Netflix, Inc. and Online Television 145<br/>Jane Shattuc<br/><br/>8 Television Advertising: Texts, Political Economy, and Ideology 165<br/>Matthew P. McAllister and Lars Stoltzfus‐Brown<br/><br/>9 Contested Connections: Public Broadcasting and Culture in Common 183<br/>Graham Murdock<br/><br/>Part V Genres 199<br/><br/>10 Reality TV: Performances and Audiences 201<br/>Annette Hill<br/><br/>11 Revisiting the Trade in Television News 221<br/>Andrew Calabrese and Christopher C. Barnes<br/><br/>12 Twitter Watchers: The Care and Feeding of Cable News Flow in the Age of Trump 247<br/>Deborah L. Jaramillo<br/><br/>13 Television and Sports 265<br/>Michael R. Real and William M. Kunz<br/><br/>Part VI Programs 285<br/><br/>14 30 Rock and the Satirical Representation of the Television Industry 287<br/>Lauren Bratslavsky<br/><br/>15 Nothing New Under the Sun: The Reimplementation of 80s Sitcom Tropes in NBC’s This is Us 307<br/>Novotny Lawrence<br/><br/>Part VII Audiences 325<br/><br/>16 Children and Television: A Special Audience for a Special Medium 327<br/>Dafna Lemish<br/><br/>17 Watching Television: A Political Economic Approach 345<br/>Eileen R. Meehan<br/><br/>18 The Female Television Audience Updated: Women’s Television Culture in the Age of New Media 361<br/>Andrea Press and Sarah R. Johnson<br/><br/>19 Television as a Moving Aesthetic: In Search of the Ultimate Aesthetic – The Self 379<br/>Julianne H. Newton<br/><br/>Part VIII International Case Studies 403<br/><br/>20 Television in Latin America: Stages of Transition 405<br/>John Sinclair<br/><br/>21 Drama, Audiences, and Authenticity: Television Programming and Audiences in Post‐Apartheid South Africa 423<br/>Ruth Teer‐Tomaselli<br/><br/>22 Television in the Arab Region: History, Structure, and Transformations 439<br/>Joe F. Khalil<br/><br/>23 Sixty Years of Chinese Television: History, Political Economy, and Ideology in a Conflicted Global Order 459<br/>Yuezhi Zhao and Zhenzhi Guo<br/><br/>Index 477 
<br/><br/> "Since the 1940s, an impressive variety of critical approaches to the media and television have developed. In this chapter, I will first present the Frankfurt School as an inaugurator of critical approaches to television studies and will then consider how a wide range of theorists addressed what later became known as the politics of representation in critical television studies, engaging problematics of class, gender, race, sexuality, and other central components of media representation and social life"-- 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781119269458 9781119269441 9781119269465 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2019035552 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Television broadcasting.<br/>Television.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN1992.5 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>791.45