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British Television: A Reader

Edited by Edward Buscombe

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""Oxford Television Studies"" offers international authors - both established and emerging - an opportunity to reflect on particular problems of history, theory and criticism which are specific to television and which are central to its critical understanding. The perspective of the series is international, while respecting the peculiarities of the national; historical, without proposing simple histories; and is grounded in the analysis of programmes and genres. The series is intended to be foundational without being introductory, facilitating clearly focused critical reflection and engaging a range of debates, topics and approaches which offer a basis for the development of television studies. British television has been a success story. One factor in this success has been the distinctive institutional structure of British broadcasting, a mix of state-regulated and publicly-funded services with commercial services. This study attempts to give a broad overview of British television by examining both the institutional framework and the programmes that it has produced. A range of reprinted writings from the work of acknowledged experts is supplemented by specially commissioned essays o

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Publisher | Oxford University Press
Published date | 27 Jan 2000
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 364
Dimensions | 234 x 156 x 19mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 538g
ISBN | 978-0-1987-4265-4
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BISAC | social science / media studies


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