Study of Modern Television

ANDREW CRISELL is Professor of Broadcasting at Sunderland University, UK. He is the author of Understanding Radio (Routledge, 1994) and Introductory History of British Broadcasting (Routledge, 2002), and the editor of Music Box: Radio Cultures and Communities in a Multi-Media World (Berghahn, 2004).

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionPART I: THE FOUNDATIONS OF MODERN TELEVISIONBirth and Infancy: 1884 1954The Years of Duopoly: 1955 1982Proliferation and Deregulation: the 1970s OnwardsModern Television: Policies and PracticesPART II: TELEVISION GENRESNews and Current AffairsDocumentary and FeaturesForms of InfotainmentSportDrama and FilmComedy and Light EntertainmentPART III: TELEVISION CULTURETelevision: Audience Uses and EffectsGlobalisation and LocalismTelevision, Theatricality and Public LifeConclusionBibliography.

'This is a well timed text...The book's split into three sections: The foundations of modern television; Television genres; Television Culture. The strength of Crisell's book lies particularly in the first two sections.' - Nick Lacey, Media Education Association, Newsletter December 2006 '...a succinct, lucidly written analysis...' European Journal of Communication ...his strength is to bring into focus the sub-field and to reaffirm that there is a major area of study that now more than ever should not be cast aside because of overheated claims about a changing technological environment. He reminds us that television, as we have understood it thus far, has not gone away. ' European Journal of Communication