Critical Methods and Applications

by Jeremy G. Butler






384 pages, ISBN 0-534-16686-5


Television: Critical Methods and Applications

Even the most avid TV watchers will see it with fresh perspective in Television. In this insightful book, Jeremy Butler turns a critical eye to television, discovering just how it creates meanings and pleasures. The text starts with a look at narrative structure in television. Then it examines television style in set design, lighting, videography and cinematography, editing, and sound. Finally Television looks at a variety of critical approaches to the study of the medium and provides a sample critical analysis of Designing Women.

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• About the Author
  

This is a first rate book--up to date in terms of both U.S. TV programming and critical scholarship, cogently organized, and stylishly written. It is witty and generous to other scholars. Television makes dense arguments comprehensible and concrete, always coming up with terrific examples to make points clear.

--Patricia Mellencamp, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

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