An Introduction to Television Studies

An Introduction to Television Studies provides students with a comprehensive framework for understanding the key concepts and main approaches to television studies. Topics covered include: audience research, television history and broadcasting policy and the analytical study of individual programmes.

Updates to this 4^th edition will include:

• new case studies throughout, including Game of Thrones and Sherlock
• greater discussion of HBO, Netflix, and other premium delivery services
• new material on convergence of television with digital and online technologies
• expanded coverage of audience studies and fandom, exploring areas such as ‘cosplay’.

Jonathan Bignell is Professor of Television and Film at the University of Reading, UK. He is the author of Beckett on Screen: The Television Plays, Media Semiotics: An Introduction, Big Brother: Reality TV in the Twenty-first Century and Postmodern Media Culture, and co-author of The Television Handbook, 2nd edition. He is the editor of Writing and Cinema, and joint editor of Popular Television Drama and British Television Drama: Past, Present and Future.