The Television Studies Reader Book

	Notes on Contributors
	Acknowledgements
	Frequently Asked Questions: A General Introduction to the Reader	1
Pt. 1	Institutions of Television
	Introduction to part one	27
1	'Ises' and 'Oughts': Public Service Broadcasting in Europe	33
2	Moving Beyond the "Vast Wasteland": Cultural Policy and Television in the United States	52
3	Protecting the Citizen, Protecting Society	66
4	Australia's Television Culture	79
5	Telefeminism: How Lifetime Got its Groove, 1984-1997	92
Pt. 2	Spaces of Television
	Introduction to part two	105
6	Hollywood Planet: Global Media and the Competitive Advantage of Narrative Transparency	111
7	Geolinguistic Region as Global Space: the Case of Latin America	130
8	The Global, the Local and the Public Sphere	139
9	Popular Media as Public 'Sphericules' for Diasporic Communities	151
Pt. 3	Modes of Television
	Introduction to part three	163
10	A Cultural Approach to Television Genre Theory	171
11	Live Television Is Still Alive: On Television as an Unfulfilled	182
12	Codes and Conventions of Dramadoc and Docudrama	196
13	News as Performance: The Image as Event	209
14	Adworlds	226
15	Making Sense of Soaps	242
16	The Pie and the Crust: Television Program Formats	258
Pt. 4	Making Television
	Introduction to part four	267
17	Television Production	275
18	Modes of Production: The Televisual Apparatus	293
19	Big Brother Australia: Performing the 'Real' Twenty-Four-Seven	311
20	Studio Discussions	322
21	Media Pilgrims: On the Set of Coronation Street	332
22	Public Access/Private Confession: Home Video as (Queer) Community Television	343
23	Hausa Dramas and the Rise of Video Culture in Nigeria	354
Pt. 5	Social Representation on Television
	Introduction to part five	367
24	Television, Representation and Gender	373
25	Primetime TV in the Gay Nineties: Network Television, Quality Audiences and Gay Politics	389
26	Welcome Home?: CBS, PAX-TV, and "Heartland" Values in a Neo-Network Era	404
27	Broadcasting and the Construction of the National Family	418
28	'The Biggest Show in the World': Race and the Global Popularity of The Cosby Show	442
Pt. 6	Watching Television
	Introduction to part six	457
29	Qualitative Audience Research	461
30	In the Worst Possible Taste: Children, Television and Cultural Value	479
31	Television While You Wait	494
32	Defining Cult-TV: Texts, Inter-texts and Fan Audiences	509
33	Democratainment	524
Pt. 7	Transforming Television
	Introduction to part seven	535
34	Reality TV in the Digital Era: A Paradox in Visual Culture?	543
35	Camcorder Cults	557
36	Living on Dawson's Creek: Teen Viewers, Cultural Convergence and Television Overflow	569
37	Postmodern Virtualities	581
38	Social Relationships and Identity Online and Offline	596
	Suggestions for Further Reading	615
	Index	625