Product Description

Genre is central to understanding the industrial context and the visual form of television. This new edition of a key textbook brings together leading international scholars to provide an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the debates, issues and concerns of television genre.

'The Television Genre Book' is structured in eleven sections which introduce the concept of 'genre' itself and how it has been understood in television studies, and then address in turn key televisual genres: drama, soap opera, comedy, news, documentary, reality television, children's television, animation, prime time and day time.

The discussion is illustrated throughout with case studies of classic and contemporary programming from each genre, ranging from The Sopranos to Bleak House and from Monty Python's Flying Circus to South Park. The second edition features new sections on reality tv, animation, prime time and day time tv, and new case studies of recent shows such as 24, CSI, The Office and The X Factor.

The second edition includes selected guides to further reading and a full bibliography.

Contributors: William Boddy, Frances Bonner, Stella Bruzzi, David Buckingham, Rod Brookes, Lez Cooke, John Corner, Glen Creeber, Marie Messenger-Davies, Kevin Donnelly, Jon Dovey, Jane Feuer, John Hartley, Jackie Harrison, Luke Hockley, Jason Jacobs, Cathy Johnson, Justin Lewis, Janet MacCabe, Anna McCarthy, Toby Miller, Brett Mills, Jason Mittell, Rachel Moseley, Steve Neale, Robin Nelson, Tom O'Malley, Adrian Page, Jane Roscoe, Jane Shattuc, Thomas Tufte, John Tulloch, Graeme Turner, Paul Wells.

 

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #433701 in Books
• Published on: 2008-11-24
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

About the Author
The Editor: Glen Creeber is Senior Lecturer in Film and Television at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He is the author of Serial Television (2004), editor of Tele-Visions: An Introduction to Studying Television (2006) and of a study of The Singing Detective in the BFI TV Classics series (2007).

Customer Reviews

Very nice introduction to television genres
This book contains a lot of articles about television genres with a lot of examples from shows and programmes. What I particular liked was that this book writes about shows today but with a historic point of view. This is not a book for people, who want to learn everything about a particular genre, but if you want a broad introduction to just about everything on TV today this is your book!