Television The Critical View [Paperback]

First published in 1976,Television: The Critical Viewset the foundation for the serious study of television, becoming the gold standard of anthologies in the field. With this seventh edition, editor Horace Newcomb has moved the book from one merely intended to legitimize the critical inquiry of television to a text that reflects how complex critical approaches to television have become today. Comprised of virtually all new selections that deal with both classic and contemporary programming, the seventh edition adds new material on television history, the reception context of television, and international programming such as Chinese soap operas and Brazilian telenovelas.Television: The Critical Viewremains a well established and critically acclaimed text essential for courses in critical studies, communication studies, cultural studies, media history, television criticism, television history, and broadcasting.

* = in previous edition
Preface to the Seventh Edition
Preface to the First Edition
*Horace Newcomb, Television and the Present Climate of Criticism
PART 1: HISTORY
Mark Alvey, 'Too Many Kids & Old Ladies': Quality Demographics and 1960s U.S. Television
Aniko Bodroghkozy, Negotiating Civil Rights in Prime Time: A Production & Reception History of CBS'sEast Side/West Side
Marsha Casidy and Mimi White, Innovating Women's Television in Local and National Networks: Ruth Lyons and Arlene Francis
Susan Murray, Ethnic Masculinity and Early Television's Vaudeo Star
Nathan Godfried, Identity, Power, and Local Television: African Americans, Organized Labor, and UHF-TV in Chicago, 1962-1968
PART 2: THE PRODUCTION CONTEXT
Elana Levine, Toward a Paradigm for Media Production Research: Behind the Scenes atGeneral Hospital
Caroline-Isabelle Caron, Translating Trek: Rewriting an American Icon in a Francophone Context
Greg Siegel, Double Vision: LlS.