Television: Critical Methods and Applications Book

Contents: Preface. Part I: Understanding Television’s Structures and Systems. Television’s Ebb and Flow in the Postnetwork Era. Narrative Structure: Television Stories. Building Narrative: Character, Actor, Star. Beyond and Beside Narrative Structure. Part II: Television’s Style: Image and Sound. Style and Setting: Mise-en-Scene. Style and the Camera: Videography and Cinematography. Style and Editing. Style and Sound. A History of Television Style—Gary A. Copeland. Music Television—Blaine Allan. Animated Television: The Narrative Cartoon. The Television Commercial. Television Studies: Alternatives to Empirical Approaches. Appendix.