Understanding Television
, by Andrew Goodwin- ISBN: 9780415016711 | 0415016711
- Cover: Nonspecific Binding
- Copyright: 7/20/2005
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