The Television Genre Book Edited by Glen Creeber, Cr eeber, Toby Miller, John Tulloch
Genre is central to understanding the industrial context and the visual form of television. This new edition of a key textbook textbook brings together leading le ading international international scholars sc holars to provide provide an acces sible si ble and comprehensive comprehensive introduction introduction to the the debates, debates , issues is sues and concerns concerns of televisi televi sion on genre. 'The Television Genre Book' is structured in eleven sections which introduce the concept of 'genre' itself and how it has been understood understood in i n television televis ion studies, studies , and then address in turn key televisual televis ual genres: drama, drama, soap soa p opera, comedy, news, documentary, documentary, reality televis ion, children's televis ion, animation, prime time and day time. time. The discuss disc ussion ion is illustrated il lustrated throughout throughout with cas c ase e studies of class cla ss ic and contempor contemporary ary programming programming from each genre, ranging from The Sopranos to Bleak House and from Monty Python's Flying Circus to South Park . The second edition features new sections on reality tv, animation, prime time and day time tv, and new case studies of recent shows shows such as 24, CSI, The Office and The X Factor . The second edition includes selected sel ected guides to further reading and a full bibliography. Contributors: Contributors: William Will iam Boddy, Frances Bonner, Stella Stell a Bruzzi, Bruzzi, David D avid Buckingham, Rod R od Brookes, Brookes, Lez Cooke, John Corner, Glen Creeber, Marie Messenger-Davies, Kevin Donnelly, Jon Dovey, Jane Feuer, John Hartley, Jackie Harrison, Luke Hockley, Jason Jacobs, Cathy Johnson, Justin Lewis, Janet MacCabe, Anna McCarthy, Toby Miller, Brett Mills, Jason Mittell, Rachel Moseley, Steve Neale, Robin Nelson, Tom O'Malley, Adrian Page, Jane Roscoe, Jane Shattuc, Shattuc, Thomas Tufte, John Tulloch, Graeme Turner, Turner, Paul Wells Wells .
The Editor: Glen Creeber is Senior Lecturer in Film and Television at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He is the author author of Serial Television (2004), editor of Tele-Visions: An Introduction to Studying Television (2006) and of a study of The Singing Detective in the the BFI TV Clas C lassic sicss series (2007).
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