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1 online resource (513 pages) |
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Routledge Communication Series |
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Routledge communication series.
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Television Critical Methods and Applications; Copyright; Brief Contents; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; PART I TELEVISION STRUCTURES AND SYSTEMS; Chapter 1 An Introduction to Television Structures and Systems: Ebb and Flow in the Postnetwork Era; Television's Not-So-Distant Past: The Network Era; Polysemy, Heterogeneity, Contradiction; Interruption and Sequence; Segmentation; Halting the Flow: Television in the Postnetwork Era; Summary; Further Readings; Chapter 2 Narrative Structure: Television Stories; The Theatrical Film; The Television Series; The Television Serial |
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Transmedia StorytellingSummary; Further Readings; Chapter 3 Building Narrative: Character, Actor, Star; Building Characters; Building Performances; The Star System?; Summary; Further Readings; Chapter 4 Beyond and Beside Narrative Structure; Television's Reality; Television's Reality: Forms and Modes; Television's Reality: Genres; Summary; Further Readings; Chapter 5 The Television Commercial; U.S. TV's Economic Structure; The Polysemy of Commodities; The Persuasive Style of Commercials; Summary: "Capitalism in Action"; Further Readings; PART II TELEVISION STYLE: IMAGE AND SOUND |
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Chapter 6 An Introduction to Television Style: Modes of ProductionSingle-Camera Mode of Production; Multiple-Camera Mode of Production; Hybrid Modes of Production; Summary; Further Readings; Chapter 7 Style and Setting: Mise-en-Scene; Set Design; Costume Design; Lighting Design; Actor Movement; Summary; Further Readings; Chapter 8 Style and the Camera: Videography and Cinematography; Basic Optics: The Camera Lens; Image Definition and Resolution; Color and Black-and-White; Framing; In-Camera Visual Effects; Summary; Further Readings; Chapter 9 Style and Editing |
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The Single-Camera Mode of ProductionThe Multiple-Camera Mode of Production; Continuity Editing and Hybrid Modes of Production; Summary; Further Readings; Chapter 10 Style and Sound; Types of Television Sound; Purposes of Sound on Television; Acoustic Properties and Sound Technology; Space, Time, and Narrative; Summary; Further Readings; PART III TELEVISION STUDIES; Chapter 11 An Introduction to Television Studies; Critical Research and Television; Further Readings; Chapter 12 Textual Analysis; Television Authorship; Style and Stylistics; Genre Study; Semiotics; Summary; Further Readings |
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Chapter 13 Discourse and IdentityIdeological Criticism and Cultural Studies; The Discourse of the Industry I: Production Studies; The Discourse of the Industry II: Political Economy; Discourse and Identity I: Gender; Discourse and Identity II: Queer Theory; Discourse and Identity III: Race and Ethnicity; Summary; Further Readings; Appendix I: Sample Analyses and Exercises; Appendix II: Mass Communication Research; Glossary; Index |
| Summary |
For nearly two decades, Television: Critical Methods and Applications has served as the foremost guide to television studies. Designed for the television studies course in communication and media studies curricula, Television explains in depth how television programs and commercials are made and how they function as producers of meaning. Author Jeremy G. Butler shows the ways in which camera style, lighting, set design, editing, and sound combine to produce meanings that viewers take away from their television experience. He supplies students with a whole toolbox of implements to disassemble t |
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Print version record |
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Television -- Psychological aspects.
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Television -- Semiotics.
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Television broadcasting -- United States.
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Television criticism.
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Television broadcasting
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Television criticism
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Television -- Psychological aspects
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Television -- Semiotics
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United States
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203845240 |
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0203845242 |
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