This comprehensive textbook, now substantially updated for its fourth
edition, provides students with a framework for understanding the key
concepts and main approaches to Television Studies, including audiences,
representation, industry and global television, as well as the
analytical study of individual programmes.
This new edition reflects the significant changes the television
industry is undergoing in the streaming era with an explosion of new
content and providers, whilst also identifying how many existing
practices have endured. The book includes a glossary of key terms, with
each chapter suggesting further reading.
New and updated material includes:
- Chapters on style and form, narrative, industry, and representation
and identity
- Case studies on Bon Appétit's YouTube channel, Insecure, British
youth television, ABC and Disney+, fixed-rig observational
documentary, streaming platforms' use of data to shape audience
experience, Chewing Gum, Korean drama and The Marvelous Mrs Maisel
- Sections on medical drama, YouTube creators, Skam and scripted
format sales, the global spread of streaming platforms, prestige TV
and period drama
With individual chapters addressing television style and form,
narrative, histories, industries, genres and formats, realities,
production, audiences, representation and identity, and quality, this
book is essential reading for both students and scholars of Television
Studies.
