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Re-viewing Television History: Critical Issues in Television History
Helen Wheatley
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Description for Re-viewing Television History: Critical Issues in Television History
Paperback. Presents a reassessment of both methods and practices in television historiography and of assumptions and critical common places about television history itself. This book focuses on debates about the canon, on texts, on production and institutions, on viewers, and the interconnections between these distinct areas. Editor(s): Wheatley, Helen. Num Pages: 232 pages, 8 integrated. BIC Classification: APT. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 158 x 16. Weight in Grams: 388.
Written by leading scholars in the field, this book is an internationally relevant, cutting-edge reassessment of both current methods and practices in television historiography and of assumptions and critical common places about television history itself. The book focuses on debates about the canon, on texts, on production and institutions, on viewers, and the interconnections between these distinct areas. The book opens with three chapters, which take different approaches to the notion of the 'television canon'. Then through discussions and case studies it covers a wide selection of themes and issues, from television's approaches to immigration and royal events to histories ... Read more
Written by leading scholars in the field, this book is an internationally relevant, cutting-edge reassessment of both current methods and practices in television historiography and of assumptions and critical common places about television history itself. The book focuses on debates about the canon, on texts, on production and institutions, on viewers, and the interconnections between these distinct areas. The book opens with three chapters, which take different approaches to the notion of the 'television canon'. Then through discussions and case studies it covers a wide selection of themes and issues, from television's approaches to immigration and royal events to histories ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
232
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845111885
SKU
V9781845111885
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Ref
99-10
About Helen Wheatley
Helen Wheatley is Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at the University of Warwick. She has published work on a range of popular television drama and factual entertainment in the UK, US, and beyond, and is the author of 'Gothic Television' (Manchester University Press, 2006). .
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