ABSTRACT

Channels of Discourse fills a significant gap in the critical literature on television. The eight distinguished scholars whose essays make up the collection consider commercial televisionin relation to the major strands of contemporary literary, cultural and cinematic criticism.

chapter |22 pages

Introduction to the Second Edition

chapter 1|29 pages

Semiotics, Structuralism, and Television

chapter 2|25 pages

Narrative Theory and Television

chapter 3|27 pages

Audience-Oriented Criticism and Television

chapter 4|17 pages

Genre Study and Television

chapter 5|31 pages

Ideological Analysis and Television

chapter 6|34 pages

Psychoanalysis, Film, and Television

chapter 7|28 pages

Feminist Criticism and Television

chapter 8|32 pages

British Cultural Studies and Television

chapter 9|20 pages

Television and Postmodernism