Television studies

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Television studies is an academic discipline that deals with critical approaches to television. Usually, it is distinguished from mass-communication research, which tends to approach the topic from an empirical perspective.

Defining the field is problematic, and many institutions and syllabuses do not distinguish it from media studies. Television studies is roughly the equivalent of film studies in that it is concerned with textual analysis. Programmes such as Cathy Come Home attracted the interests of researchers for its filmic qualities.

The study of reception and how audiences make meaning from texts is known as Audience Studies.

[edit] List of television-studies journals

The following journals are either devoted to television studies or, at the least, frequently include TV-studies essays.

[edit] English language

• Camera Obscura — feminist media theory.
• Cinema Journal — published by the Society for Cinema and Media Studies.
• Flow — an online journal of television and media studies published biweekly by the Department of Radio-TV-Film at the University of Texas at Austin.
• Journal of Film and Video — published by the University Film and Video Association.
• JUMP CUT — review of contemporary media.
• Screen — possibly the most influential film and TV journal of the 1970s and 1980s.

[edit] Further reading

• Robert C. Allen and Annette Hill, eds., The Television Studies Reader (New York: Routledge, 2004)
• Jonathan Bignell, An Introduction to Television Studies (New York: Routledge, 2004)
• Bernadette Casey, Neil Casey, Ben Calvert, Liam French, Justin Lewis, Television Studies: The Key Concepts (New York: Routlege, 2002)
• John Corner, Critical Ideas in Television Studies (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999)
• Christine Geraghty, David Lusted, eds., The Television Studies Book (New York: Arnold, 1998)
• Toby Miller, ed., Television Studies (London: BFI, 2002).