Butler Television

Visual Storytelling and Screen Culture
5. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-351-72189-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 422 Seiten

For over two decades, Television: Visual Storytelling and Screen Culture (formerly subtitled 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 how they function as producers of meaning. Author Jeremy G. Butler shows the ways in which camera style, lighting, set design, editing, and sound combine to produce meanings that viewers take away from their television experience. He supplies students with a whole toolbox of implements to disassemble television and read between the lines, teaching them to incorporate critical thinking into their own television viewing. The fifth edition builds upon the pedagogy of previous editions to best accommodate current modes of understanding and teaching television.

Highlights of the fifth edition include:

• An entirely new chapter by Amanda D. Lotz on television in the contemporary media environment.

• Discussions integrated throughout on the latest developments in screen culture during the on-demand era—including the impact of binge-watching and the proliferation of screens (smartphones, tablets, computer monitors, etc.).

• Updates on the effect of new digital technologies on TV style.

• Over three hundred printed illustrations, including new and better quality screen shots of recent television shows and commercials and new narrative diagrams.

• A companion website containing color screen shots, a glossary, flash cards, and do-it-yourself video editing and sound exercises for students, as well as PowerPoint presentations, sample syllabi, and sample student papers for instructors. Simplified short links to online videos that support examples in the text are provided.

With its distinctive approach to examining television, Television is appropriate for courses in television studies, media criticism, and general critical studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Butler, Jeremy G.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART I TELEVISION STRUCTURES AND SYSTEMS

1. Television Structures and Systems: Ebb and Flow in the Network Era

2. Television Structures and Systems: Ebb and Flow in the Postnetwork Era - Amanda Lotz

3. Narrative Structure: Television Stories

4. Building Narrative: Character, Actor, Star

5. Beyond and Beside Narrative Structure

6. The Television Commercial

PART II TELEVISION STYLE: IMAGE AND SOUND

7. An Introduction to Television Style: Modes of Production

8. Style and Setting: Mise-en-Scene

9. Style and the Camera: Videography and Cinematography

10. Style and Editing

11. Style and Sound

PART III TELEVISION STUDIES

12. An Introduction to Television Studies

13. Textual Analysis

14. Discourse and Identity

Über Autor(innen)

Jeremy G. Butler is Professor of Journalism and Creative Media at the University of Alabama. He has taught television, film, and new media courses since 1980 and is active in online educational resources for television and film studies.