目录 UUnit 1 : Domestic Location Text I Television and Family Text II Television in the Family Unit 2 : Medium Characteristics Text III Broadcast TV as Cultural Form Text IV Remediation: Understanding New Media Unit 3 : Cultural Form Text V Programming as Sequence or Flow Text VI Television / Sound Unit 4 : Cultural Economy Text VII The Political Economy of the Television (Super) Text Text VIII Inside the Prime Time Unit 5 : Genre / Format Text IX Genre Study and Television Text X Producing (Post-)Trendy Japanese TV Dramas Unit 6 : Intertextuality Text XI Bardic Television Text XII Television as a Cultural Forum Unit 7 : National Broadcasting Systems Text XIII Public Service Versus the Market Text XIV "Democracy as Defeat": The Impotence of Arguments for Public Service Broadcasting Unit 8 : Going Global Text XV Adapting US Transnational Television Channels to a Complex World:From Cultural Imperialism to Localization to Hybridization Text XVI The De-Centering of Cultural Imperialism: Television and Globalization in the Latin World Unit 9 : Encoding / Decoding Text XVII Decoding and Recoding Audiences Text XVIII Dallas as an Educational Game Unit 10: Audiences Text XIX Living Room Wars: Rethinking Media Audiences for a Postmodern World Text XX A Typology of Television Use Glossary
主编推荐 本着电视研究跨学科、多视角的特点,《读解电视》的编者宋云峰、尼克·佩里选取了20篇电视研究学者的重要文章(或章节),从五个主要方面全面剖析电视的本质与特点,供读者和研究者对西方的电视研究领域进行深入、系统的认识或借鉴。这五个主要方面分别是:组织电视广播的产业和企业(industries and enterprises which organizes television);实现电视广播的文本(texts that realize television);接收电视的观众(audience that recognize television);管理电视的机构(agencies that regulate it);影响电视传播的技术手段(technology that shapes television)。
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