Burns and Thompson help to remedy the lack of a forum for current
research on television by bringing together, in this volume, some
of the best recent research in television studies. This work will
begin to fill the gap in literature on television studies as a
discipline. In compiling these 13 papers, the editors maintain a
balance of timely interest and lasting relevance. The contributors
study the texts of current TV dramatic and comic series, such as
Dallas and Cheers, as well as current trends in nonfiction TV, such
as network and local news coverage. Each analysis of a specific
television text is complimented with rigorous theoretical
argumentation. Students and scholars of communications and
television criticism will find Television Studies valuable reading.
The book begins with a two-chapter debate primarily seeking a
definition of `television studies.' The debate includes a critical
examination of the capitalist institutions that dominate television
as an industry. Further chapters discuss dramatic television
series; an examination of the development of the lengthy serial
text of Dallas, and structural analysis of the pilot episode of
Cheers. The book contains five essays on nonfiction television,
including an insiders view of the production and promotion of local
TV news and an analysis of CBS and ABC's TV news coverage of South
Africa over a two week period in 1987. In a final essay,
conventional wisdom about `the audience' is refuted.
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