Television CultureTelevision Culture provides a comprehensive introduction to television studies. Fiske examines both the economic and cultural aspects of television, and investigates it in terms of both theory and text-based criticism. Fiske introduces the main arguments from current British, American, Australian, and French scholarship in a style accessible to the student, providing an integrated study of approaches to the medium. |
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Realism | 21 |
Realism and ideology | 37 |
Subjectivity and address | 48 |
Copyright | |
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