Television Studies Books

General Discussions

British Television

Compiled for the British Film Institute by Tise Vahimagi

Hollywood TV

by Christopher Anderson.

Television: An International History

Edited by Anthony Smith

New Patterns in Global Television

edited by John Sinclair, Elizabeth Jacka, and Stuart Cunningham

Criticism, Theory, Specific Histories and Topics

As Seen on TV

by Karal Ann Marling

High Anxiety

by Patricia Mellencamp.

The Ideological Octopus

by Justin Lewis.

Living Room Lectures

by Nina C. Leibman.

Logics of Television

edited by Patricia Mellencamp.

Love and Ideology in the Afternoon

by Laura Stempel Mumford.

Popular Film and Television Comedy

Steve Neale and Frank Krutnik.

Public Broadcasting and the Public Trust

edited by David Horowitz and Laurence Jarvik

Re-Viewing Reception

by Lynne Joyrich.

Seeing Through the Eighties

by Jane Feuer.

Teletheory

by Gregory Ulmer

Television and the Household

Edited by Duncan Petrie and Janet Willis. Indiana/BFI.

Textual Poachers

by Henry Jenkins.

Turn Up the Contrast

by Mary Jane Miller.

Understanding Media

by Marshall McLuhan

Unsilent Revolution

by Robert Donovan and Ray Scherer.

Writing for Television and Radio

by Robert L. Hilliard