A Companion to Television Book

	Introduction	1
1	The development of television studies	15
2	Critical perspectives on television from the Frankfurt School to postmodernism	29
3	Television and history	51
4	Our TV heritage : television, the archive, and the reasons for preservation	67
5	Television as a moving aesthetic : in search of the ultimate aesthetic - the self	103
6	Locating the televisual in golden age television	126
7	Television production : who makes American TV?	142
8	Who rules TV? : states, markets, and the public interest	157
9	Public broadcasting and democratic culture : consumers, citizens, and communards	174
10	Culture, services, knowledge : television between policy regimes	199
11	Television advertising as textual and economic systems	217
12	Watching television : a political economic approach	238
13	Keeping "abreast" of MTV and Viacom : the growing power of a media conglomerate	256
14	The trade in television news	270
15	Configurations of the new television landscape	291
16	The study of soap opera	308
17	The shifting terrain of American talk shows	324
18	Television and sports	337
19	"Where the past comes alive" : television, history, and collective memory	361
20	"How will you make it on your own?" : television and feminism since 1970	379
21	Television and race	395
22	Television, public spheres, and civic cultures	411
23	Television and public opinion	433
24	Reality TV : performance, authenticity, and television audiences	449
25	A special audience? : children and television	468
26	Local community channels : alternatives to corporate media dominance	489
27	Latin American commercial television : "primitive capitalism"	503
28	Television in China : history, political economy, and ideology	521
29	Japanese television : early development and research	540
30	Change and transformation in South African television	558
31	Television in the Arab East	580