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Television Studies

This guide is an introduction to library and internet resources for Television Studies.
  • Introduction
  • TV courses
  • Introductory resources
  • Finding books about television
  • Finding television shows
  • Journals & magazines about television
  • History of television
  • Censorship
  • TV criticism
  • TV theory
  • Writing for television
  • Television adaptations
    • Shakespeare on television
  • TV ratings
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  • Television broadcasting & networks
  • Global television
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Other library resource(s)

  • Resource logoAsian television from Oxford Bibliographies Online by Anthony Fung
    • On Campus or VPN
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    ISBN: 9780199791286
    In the early 21st century, studies of Asian television have become an important and significant research area in the fields of media studies, communication, cultural studies, comparative literature, and Asian studies.
  • Resource logoChinese television from Oxford Bibliographies Online - Chinese Studies by Xiaoling Zhang
    • On Campus or VPN
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    ISBN: 9780199920082
    Chinese TV broadcasting started in 1958, with three stations established during that year: Beijing Television, which was changed to Central China Television (CCTV) in 1978, Shanghai Television, and Harbin Television. Although many other provincial capitals attempted to follow suit in the ensuing years, the young industry fared poorly due to a profound economic crisis in the early 1960s. ...
  • Resource logoGlobal television industry from Oxford Bibliographies Online by Denise Bielby, Kristen Bryant
    • On Campus or VPN
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    ISBN: 9780199791286
    Television was introduced as an experimental technology in the 1920s and 1930s in Europe, Asia, the former Soviet Union, and the Americas, but it was not until after World War II that it was widely adopted as a form of mass communication around the globe.
  • Resource logoSpanish-language television from Oxford Bibliographies Online by Jillian Baez, Manuel Avilés-Santiago
    • On Campus or VPN
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    ISBN: 9780199791286
    During the last decade, Spanish-language television has generated much interest among media scholars. The most recent census numbers demonstrated that Latina/os are the fastest growing minority in the United States, and the ongoing debates around immigration and the configuration of a Latino market heralded by advertisers for its “buying power” have prompted researchers to look at Spanish-language television as a site through which narratives about race, ethnicity, class, gender, and national and transnational identities intertwine. Although Spanish-language television has aired on the mainland United States since the 1960s, it was not until 2007 that the top broadcast television networks, Univision and Telemundo, joined the big leagues of television audience measurement research. The highly competitive rating numbers revealed by Nielsen indicate that Spanish-language networks are consistently in the top ten ratings during primetime.

Introduction

World or global television broadcasting is scattered throughout the H's in the library's collections. Below are several search strategies to use in the online catalog to find relevant material.

  • global television
    This is a keyword search.
  • "global television"
    This is a keyword search using a phrase.
  • transnational television
    This is a keyword search in the online catalog.
  • "world television"
    This is a keyword search.
  • foreign television programs
  • television and state
  • television and globalization
    This is a specific subject heading.
  • globali?ation and television
    This is a keyword search where the "?" stands in for "s" or "z" to catch variant spellings.
  • television broadcasting
  • television broadcasting policy
  • cable television

Introductory reading(s)

These are some of the titles we have covering "global television."

  • Cover artContemporary world television by John Sinclair; Graeme Turner, eds.
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1992.5 .C625 2004
    ISBN: 9781844570096
    What is happening today in the world of world television? With intense commercialization and more open national markets, along with technological convergence and greater concentration of ownership, the international TV landscape is changing at a bewildering pace and in a host of different ways. Contemporary World Television presents a unique overview of the global issues raised by these transformations in television. It looks at how they have affected the public interest and society across the globe and how the role of television as a nation-builder is experiencing erosion and evolution. ...
  • Cover artGlobal television: co-producing culture by Barbara Selznick
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry HM 1206 .S45 2008
    ISBN: 9781592135035
    The face of U.S. television broadcasting is changing in ways that are both profound and subtle. Global Television uncovers the particular processes by which the international circulation of culture takes place, while addressing larger cultural issues such as identity formation. ...
  • Cover artGlobal television formats: understanding television across borders by Tasha Oren; Sharon Shahaf, eds.
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1992.55 .G57 2012
    ISBN: 9780415965453
    For decades, television scholars have viewed global television through the lens of cultural imperialism, focusing primarily on programs produced by US and UK markets and exported to foreign markets. Global Television Formats revolutionizes television studies by de-provincializing its approach to media globalization.
  • Cover artGlobal television marketplace by Timothy Havens
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry HE 8700.78 .H38 2006
    ISBN: 9781844571031
    What television viewers around the world watch often depends less on popularity or government policies than on the personal relationships between buyers and sellers in the international programme market. A few thousand acquisitions and distribution professionals decide what programmes the earth's inhabitants can watch, and who can watch them. This book provides an inside look at the cultural assumptions and business practices of these television merchants. It argues that the market in television programs responds principally to institutional needs, rather than to the wishes of the viewing public or the skills of television's creative artists. ...
  • Cover artThe Routledge companion to global television by Shawn Shimpach, ed.
    • On Campus or VPN
    • E-Book
    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9781138724341
    Featuring scholarly perspectives from around the globe and drawing on a legacy of television studies, but with an eye toward the future, this authoritative collection examines both the thoroughly global nature of television and the multiple and varied experiences that constitute television in the twenty-first century. Companion chapters include original essays by some of the leading scholars of television studies as well as emerging voices engaging television on six continents, offering readers a truly global range of perspectives. ...
  • Cover artTelevision: an international history by Anthony Smith; Richard Paterson, eds.
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1992.2 .T45 1998
    ISBN: 9780198159285
    From its earliest beginnings, television was destined to become one of the great new forces at work in the twentieth century. This new edition greatly expands the original and unique historical coverage of this most influential cultural phenomenon. Written by a distinguished international team of specialists, the book describes the history of television from its technical conception in the nineteenth century right through to the bewildering multi-media developments of the present. Alongside this historical account, chapters provide important discussion of the central debates affecting television world-wide, from America, Canada, and Britain to Europe, Scandinavia, Japan, China, South Asia, the Arab world, Australia, Africa, and the Third World. ...
  • Cover artTelevision studies after TV: understanding television in the post- broadcast era by Jinna Tay; Graeme Turner, eds.
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1992.5 .T372 2009
    ISBN: 9780415477703
    Television studies must now address a complex environment where change has been vigorous but uneven, and where local and national conditions vary significantly. Globalizing media industries, deregulatory policy regimes, the multiplication, convergence and trade in media formats, the emergence of new content production industries outside the US/UK umbrella, and the fragmentation of media audiences are all changing the nature of television today: its content, its industrial structure and how it is consumed. Television Studies after TV leads the way in developing new ways of understanding television in the post-broadcast era. ...

Selected book title(s)

  • Cover artBrazilian telenovelas and the myth of racial democracy by Samantha Nogu Joyce
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1991.8 .S4 J79 2012
    ISBN: 9780739169643
    Brazilian Telenovelas and the Myth of Racial Democracy examines what happens when a telenovela directly addresses matters of race and racism in contemporary Brazil. This investigation provides a traditional textual analysis of Duas Caras (2007-2008), a watershed telenovela for two main reasons: It was the first of its kind to present audiences with an Afro-Brazilian as the main hero, openly addressing race matters through plot and dialogue. Additionally, for the first time in the history of Brazilian television, the author of Duas Caras kept a web blog where he discussed the public's reactions to the storylines, media discussions pertaining to the characters and plot, and directly engaged with fans and critics of the program. ...
  • Cover artChanneling cultures: television studies from India by Biswarup Sen & Abhijit Roy, eds.
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1992.6 .C53 2014
    ISBN: 9780198092056
    Channeling Cultures: Television Studies from India is a seminal collection of essays on regional, national and global itineraries of Indian television in the twenty-first century. At a time when the television landscape in India is undergoing a second wave of change with compulsory digitization, new interactivity and convergence, unforeseen forms of televisual publicness and renewed debates on self-censorship, media ethics and the code of content, the essays in the volume seek to provoke a fresh understanding of television as a crucial player in Indian culture and politics.
  • Cover artFeeling Asian modernities: transnational consumption of Japanese TV dramas by Koichi Iwabuchi, ed.
    • On Campus or VPN
    • E-Book
    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9789622096318
    The recent transnational reach of Japanese television dramas in East and Southeast Asia is unprecedented, and not simply in terms of the range and scale of diffusion, but also of the intense sympathy many young Asians feel toward the characters in Japanese dramas, so that they cope with their own modern lives by emulating the lives on screen. Through the empirical analysis of how Japanese youth dramas are (re)produced, circulated, regulated, and consumed in East and Southeast Asia, each chapter in this volume variously explores the ways in which intra-Asian cultural flows highlight cultural resonance and asymmetry in the region under the decentering processes of globalization. ...
  • Cover artGlobalization and human rights by Alma Kadragic
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry JC 571 .K28 2006
    ISBN: 9780791081907
    A discussion of how the process of globalization has affected personal freedom and how worldwide press associations have become outspoken advocates for ending human rights abuse.
  • Cover artLocating Nordic noir: from Beck to The Bridge by Anne Marit Waade; Kim Toft Hansen
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1992.3 .S34 H36 2017
    ISBN: 9783319598147
    This book is a comprehensive study of Nordic Noir television drama from the 1990's until today. The authors introduce the history of contemporary Nordic Noir from the perspective of place, production and location studies. The chapters include readings of well-known television crime dramas such as Beck, The Killing, Trapped and The Bridge as well as a range of other important Nordic Noir cases. ...
  • Cover artNew patterns in global television formats by Karina Aveyard, Pia Majbritt Jensen and Albert Moran, eds.
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1992.55 .N47 2016
    ISBN: 9781783207121
    The past twenty years have seen major changes in the ways that television formats and programming are developed and replicated internationally for different markets--with locally focused repackagings of hit reality shows leading the way. But in a sense, that's not new: TV formats have been being exported for decades, with the approach and methods changing along with changes in broadcast technology, markets, government involvement, and audience interest. ...
  • Cover artOurselves in primetime: a history of New Zealand television drama by Trisha Dunleavy
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry TK 6638 .N45 D86 2005
    ISBN: 9781869403393
    The genesis and development of homegrown television drama in New Zealand are the subjects of this in-depth analysis. Spanning from the 1960s, when television itself was in its infancy, to modern times--an era of fragmented audiences, hundreds of channels, and declining public service ideals and funding--the study illustrates how television drama has reflected changes in ideas about cultural identity and New Zealand society.
  • Cover ArtSelling television: British television in the global marketplace by Jeanette Steemers
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1992.3 .G7 S74 2004
    ISBN: 9781844570225
    Is British television the best television in the world? Britain is the second largest international exporter of television, with celebrated shows such as Walking with Dinosaurs, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, Teletubbies, and Bob the Builder securing unprecedented success worldwide. Selling Televison asks how and why some types of programming have worked better than others at a time when both government and industry have become concerned about British under performance in a competitive global marketplace. ...
  • Cover artTelevision and the Afghan culture wars: brought to you by foreigners, warlords, and activists by Wazhmah Osman
    • On Campus or VPN
    • E-Book
    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9780252043550
    Portrayed in Western discourse as tribal and traditional, Afghans have in fact intensely debated women's rights, democracy, modernity, and Islam as part of their nation building in the post-9/11 era. Wazhmah Osman places television at the heart of these public and politically charged clashes while revealing how the medium also provides war-weary Afghans with a semblance of open discussion and healing. After four decades of gender and sectarian violence, she argues, the internationally funded media sector has the potential to bring about justice, national integration, and peace. ...

Selected journal title(s) and finding scholarly articles

Articles and other writings about television around the world can be found in many publications. Our collection does not include a magazine or journal title which looks exclusively at global television. You can use Film & Television Literature Index, search in the box at the top of the page or look at special issues within relevant journals.

  • Issue cover artTransnational Turkish Television Production and Consumption by International Communication Gazette
    • On Campus or VPN
    Call Number: Electronic journal special issue
    The transnationalization of the Turkish television industry, which began in the late 1990s, has been continuing with enormous success with Turkish TV series now being exported to more than 150 countries. In both introductions to the double special issue, we contextualize television in Turkey as a significant cultural field of production within its historical background and trace the transnational trajectory of Turkish dramas in Turkey and abroad. ... [85, 3/4]
  • Cover issue artCritical studies in television: the international journal of television studies by SAGE
    • On Campus or VPN
    Call Number: Electronic journal
    Critical Studies in Television publishes articles that draw together divergent disciplines and different ways of thinking, to promote and advance television as a distinct academic discipline. It welcomes contributions on any aspect of television—production studies and institutional histories, audience and reception studies, theoretical approaches, conceptual paradigms and pedagogical questions. ...
  • Special issue coverSpecial issue from Critical Studies in Television by SAGE
    • On Campus or VPN
    Call Number: Electronic journal issue
    Special issue on "Remaking Global Television Culture." We do not have a current subscription, so get articles through Interlibrary Loan. (v.14, no. 2) .
  • Resource logoFilm & television literature index
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    • Database
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    This index covers over 300 journal and magazine titles for film and television reviews, scholarly and critical analysis of cinema and television, and articles of popular interest about film and television. About half the journals and magazines are film periodicals and the other half cover film and television with some regularity. Subject coverage includes film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews.
  • Resource logoThe web of science citation databases by ISI (Institute for Scientific Information)
    • On Campus or VPN
    • Database
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    The online version of 3 separate ISI indexes: Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index and, Social Sciences Citation Index.

Internet resource(s)

  • International Television Expert Group
    • Link
    A site for professionals working in international television. It also has market data and reports. Some interesting historical information but nothing current.
  • EUscreen
    • Link
    The EUscreen portal gives public access to thousands of items of film and television clips in nineteen different languages. It brings together clips and programmes about politics, fashion, music, lifestyle, cooking, culture and more from the early 20th century to the present day.
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