UWM Libraries Research and Course Guides: Film & Television: Television

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The Age of Television: Experience and Theories by Milly Buonanno; Jennifer Radice (Translator)
Call Number: PN1992.5 .B78513 2007
ISBN: 1841501816
Publication Date: 2008-02-15
At a stage of major change in the world of television (the coming of digital TV, multiple channels, mobile TV on cellphones) this book seeks to take stock of the impact of the advent and presence of television on daily life over the past fifty years, or slightly longer. The author takes as her standpoint, or rather places at the centre of her analysis and considerations, the human experience and the way in which the medium of television has radically changed it.
A Companion to Reality Television by Laurie Ouellette
Call Number: Online Access
ISBN: 0470659270
Publication Date: 2014-01-28
International in scope and more comprehensive than existing collections, A Companion to Reality Television presents a complete guide to the study of reality, factual and nonfiction television entertainment, encompassing a wide range of formats and incorporating cutting-edge work in critical, social and political theory.
World Television: From Global to Local by Joseph D. Straubhaar
Call Number: PN1992.6 .S765 2007
ISBN: 9780803954625
Publication Date: 2007-05-18
World Television: From Global to Local, a new assessment of the interdependence of television across cultures and nations brings together the most current research and theories on the subject. By examining recent developments in the world system of television as well as several theories of culture, industry, genre, and audience, author Joseph D. Straubhaar offers new insights into the topic.
The Colorblind Screen: Television in Post-Racial America by Sarah E. Turner (Editor); Sarah Nilsen (Editor)
Call Number: PN1992.8.M54 C86 2014
ISBN: 9781479809769
Publication Date: 2014-04-04
In The Colorblind Screen, the contributors examine television’s role as the major discursive medium in the articulation and contestation of racialized identities in the United States. While the dominant mode of televisual racialization has shifted to a “colorblind” ideology that foregrounds racial differences in order to celebrate multicultural assimilation, the volume investigates how this practice denies the significant social, economic, and political realities and inequalities that continue to define race relations today.
Broadcasting Modernity: Cuban Commercial Television by Yeidy M. Rivero
Call Number: HE8700.9.C9 R58 2015
ISBN: 9780822358596
Publication Date: 2015-03-31
The birth and development of commercial television in Cuba in the 1950s occurred alongside political and social turmoil. In this period of dramatic swings encompassing democracy, a coup, a dictatorship, and a revolution, television functioned as a beacon and promoter of Cuba’s identity as a modern nation. In Broadcasting Modernity, television historian Yeidy M. Rivero shows how television owners, regulatory entities, critics, and the state produced Cuban modernity for television.
Beyond Representation by Geraldine Harris
ISBN: 0719074584
Publication Date: 2006-10-30
Beyond Representation poses the question as to whether over the last thirty years there have been signs of 'progress' or 'progressiveness' in the representation of 'marginalised' or subaltern identity categories within television drama in Britain and the US. In doing so, it interrogates some of the key assumptions concerning the relationship between aesthetics and the politics of identity that have influenced and informed television drama criticism during this period.

Media & Reserve Library

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Film & Television: Television

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