Television Books

New and Published Books

1. Foreign Correspondence

   Edited by John Hamilton, Regina G. Lawrence

   Series: Journalism Studies

   Despite the importance of foreign news, its history, transformation and indeed its future have not been much studied. The scholarly community often calls attention to journalism’s shortcomings covering the world, yet the topic has not been systematically examined across countries or over time. The...

   Published May 2nd 2012 by Routledge
2. Transnational Television History

   A Comparative Approach

   Edited by Andreas Fickers, Catherine Johnson

   Although television has developed into a major agent of the transnational and global flow of information and entertainment, television historiography and scholarship largely remains a national endeavour, partly due to the fact that television has been understood as a tool for the creation of...

   Published January 31st 2012 by Routledge
3. Television

   Critical Methods and Applications, 4th Edition

   By Jeremy G. Butler

   Series: Routledge Communication Series

   For nearly two decades, Television: Critical Methods and Applications has served as the foremost guide to television studies. Designed for the television studies course in communication and media studies curricula, Television explains in depth how television programs and commercials are made and...

   Published November 16th 2011 by Routledge
4. The Television Handbook

   4th Edition

   By Jeremy Orlebar

   Series: Media Practice

   The Television Handbook is a critical introduction to the practice and theory of television. The book examines the state of television today, explains how television is made and how production is organised, and discusses how critical thinking about programmes and genres can illuminate their...

   Published August 15th 2011 by Routledge
5. The Post-Soviet Russian Media

   Conflicting Signals

   Edited by Birgit Beumers, Stephen Hutchings, Natalia Rulyova

   Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

   This book explores developments in the Russian mass media since the collapse of the USSR in 1991. Complementing and building upon its companion volume, Television and Culture in Putin's Russia: Remote Control, it traces the tensions resulting from the effective return to state-control under Putin...

   Published May 11th 2011 by Routledge
6. Television and Culture in Putin's Russia

   Remote control

   By Stephen Hutchings, Natalia Rulyova

   Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

   This book examines television culture in Russia under the government of Vladimir Putin. In recent years, the growing influx into Russian television of globally mediated genres and formats has coincided with a decline in media freedom and a ratcheting up of government control over the content style...

   Published May 31st 2010 by Routledge
7. The Documentary Handbook

   By Peter Lee-Wright

   Series: Media Practice

   'The Documentary Handbook is mandatory reading for those who want a critical understanding of the place of factual formats in today’s exploding television and media industry, as well as expert guidance in complex craft skills in order to fully participate. The practical advice and wisdom here is...

   Published December 1st 2009 by Routledge
8. Women, Television and Everyday Life in Korea

   Journeys of Hope

   By Youna Kim

   Series: Routledge Advances in Korean Studies

   Fusing audience research and ethnography, the book presents a compelling account of women’s changing lives and identities in relation to the impact of the most popular media culture in everyday life: television. Within the historically-specific social conditions of Korean modernity, Youna Kim...

   Published April 14th 2009 by Routledge
9. Television in Post-Reform China

   Serial Dramas, Confucian Leadership and the Global Television Market

   By Ying Zhu

   Series: Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Series

   This book explores the political, economic, and cultural forces, locally and globally that have shaped the evolution of Chinese primetime television dramas, and the way that these dramas in turn have actively engaged in the major intellectual and policy debates concerning the path, steps, and speed...

   Published February 18th 2009 by Routledge
10. Broadcast Journalism

    A Critical Introduction

    Edited by Jane Chapman, Marie Kinsey

    Broadcast Journalism offers a critical analysis of the key skills required to work in the modern studio, on location, or online, with chapters written by industry professionals from the BBC, ITV, CNN and independent production companies in the UK and USA. Areas highlighted include: interviewing...

    Published October 27th 2008 by Routledge