- "Television studies is an academic discipline that deals with critical approaches to television."
Examines the various theories and approaches to studying television, including cultural studies, audience reception, media effects, and political economy.
History of Television: The development and evolution of television from its earliest forms to modern-day television.
Television Production: The process of producing television programmes, including pre-production, production, and post-production.
Television Genres: Different genres of television such as sitcoms, drama, and reality TV, and how they are structured.
Television Criticism: The study of television as a cultural artefact and how it creates meaning.
Television Industry: Key players in the television industry, including broadcasters, producers, and advertisers.
Television Audiences: The study of audience behaviour and how it affects television programming.
Representation and Identity: How different social groups are represented on television and how this affects perceptions of identity.
Television and Society: The impact of television on society and how it reflects and shapes social values and norms.
Cultural Studies and Television: The study of television as a cultural artefact and its role in shaping culture.
Television and Globalisation: The globalisation of television and the impact of this on local cultures and industries.
Cultural Studies: This theory examines how culture and society affect television, and how television affects culture and society.
Political Economy: This theory examines how the economic and political conditions affect television programming, production, and distribution.
Reception Theory: This theory examines how viewers receive and interpret television messages and how their understanding may differ from the intended meaning.
Gender and Sexuality Studies: This theory examines how gender and sexuality are constructed and represented on television, and how it reflects or challenges societal norms.
Genre Theory: This theory examines how different genres of television programming follow conventions and norms, and their specific cultural significance and impact.
Performance Theory: This theory examines how the performers' choices, styles, and techniques influence the meaning and interpretation of television content.
Media Effects: This theory examines how exposure to television affects individuals' attitudes, beliefs, behaviors, and perceptions.
Textual Analysis: This theory examines how the meanings and messages are constructed and communicated through visual and audio elements of television programs.
Postcolonial Theory: This theory examines how the cultural, economic, and political domination of colonizing nations affects television representations of the colonized and the former colonizers.
Fan Studies: This theory examines how fans engage with television content, and how their consumption and production of fan culture can influence television programming, marketing, and distribution.
- "Usually, it is distinguished from mass communication research, which tends to approach the topic from a social sciences perspective."
- "Defining the field is problematic; some institutions and syllabuses do not distinguish it from media studies or classify it as a subfield of popular culture studies."
- "One form of television studies is roughly equivalent to the longer-standing discipline of film studies in that it is often concerned with textual analysis."
- "Analyses of quality television, such as Cathy Come Home and Twin Peaks, have attracted the interests of researchers for their cinematic qualities."
- "Yet other approaches center more on the social functions of television."
- "Television studies can also incorporate the study of television viewing and how audiences make meaning from texts, which is commonly known as audience theory or reception theory."
- No specific quote directly answers this question.
- "Some institutions and syllabuses do not distinguish it from media studies."
- "Some institutions and syllabuses...classify it as a subfield of popular culture studies."
- "Analyses of quality television...have attracted the interests of researchers for their cinematic qualities."
- No specific quote directly answers this question.
- No specific quote directly answers this question.
- "Television studies can also incorporate the study of television viewing and how audiences make meaning from texts."
- No specific quote directly answers this question.
- "Television studies can also incorporate the study of television viewing and how audiences make meaning from texts, which is commonly known as audience theory or reception theory."
- "Some institutions and syllabuses...classify it as a subfield of popular culture studies."
- "Television studies can also incorporate the study of television viewing and how audiences make meaning from texts."
- No specific quote directly answers this question.
- "One form of television studies is often concerned with textual analysis."