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Lucinda M. Hall
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Keeping up with Television Studies journal literature
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You can get the app from the App Store or Google Play.
Don't own or use a mobile device? You can still use BrowZine! It's also available in a web version. You can get to it here. The web version works the same way as the app version. Find the journals you like, create a custom Bookshelf, get ToCs and read the articles you want.
Introductory Readings
The readings are from the Encyclopedia of International Media and Communications.
The year in review
- International television & video almanac byCall Number: Baker-Berry HE 8698 .I55Each volume has a "Year in Review" and documents the events in the Television industry for the year. Its earlier title, International Television Almanac, began in 1956.
Ratings Information
There are many sites that have viewer ratings for television shows. However, they all get the information from Nielsen Media Research.
- Nielsen Media ResearchNielsen Media Research tracks the television and media viewing habits of people across the country and the world. These are their Top 10 lists.
- TV Parental GuidelinesWith an increasing number of TV channels and programs, it can be hard for parents to monitor what their children are watching. The TV Parental Guidelines give parents more information about the content and age-appropriateness of TV programs.
Internet resource(s)
- The Interviews: An Oral History of Television from the Television Academy Foundation
Inspired by the Shoah Visual History Foundation's interviews, television executive Dean Valentine sought to adapt Shoah's model to create an oral history of television -- a video collection of first-person interviews with those involved in the birth and growth of the American television industry. In 1996 Valentine brought the idea to then-Television Academy president Richard Frank and Foundation chairman Thomas W. Sarnoff, who immediately saw the value of such a project. In 1997, the Television Academy Foundation officially launched the Archive of American Television to capture the stories behind the making of television and preserve them for future generations. In 2017, the Archive was renamed The Interviews: An Oral History of Television. In that time, they've amassed nearly 900 oral history interviews (approximately 4,000 hours) with the legends of television. The Interviews continues to produce new interviews every year, and covers a variety of professions, genres, and topics in electronic media history and American culture. These primary-source oral histories are conducted in a life-history format, starting with the subject's early years and influences. The conversation then moves into their major television work, and concludes with the subject's thoughts about his or her craft, as well as advice to aspiring professionals. The interviews are presented uncut and unscripted. They are never edited for content, but in rare cases an interviewee may request to amend their own words for the historical record. - Museum of Broadcast Communications
Their mission is to collect, preserve, and present historic and contemporary radio and television content as well as educate, inform, and entertain through their archives, public programs, screenings, exhibits, publications and online access to their resources. - Museum of the Moving ImageMuseum of the Moving Image advances the public understanding and appreciation of the art, history, technique, and technology of film, television, and digital media.
The site includes the Pinewood Dialogues and a short Research Guide. - TV|LineTVLine helps TV enthusiasts cut through all the clutter and find a happy place where you will want to read most every post.
More Introductory resource(s)
These are all quick information sources located in Baker-Berry Reference on the 1st level of Berry Library.
The ABC movie of the week by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780810891562Table of Contents: Season one: an expensive experiment -- Season two: ratings and relevance -- Season three: from Brian's song to the night stalker-something for everyone -- Season four: feeding the beast twice a week -- Season five: every night of the week: TV movie saturation -- Season six: diminishing returns -- Epilogue -- Appendix I- A chronological list of the movie of the week -- Appendix II- An alphabetical filmography -- Appendix III- List of movie of the week pilot films -- Appendix IV- A comment on available sources.
Animated TV specials: the complete directory to the first twenty-five years, 1962-1987 by Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1992.8 .S64 W66 1989ISBN: 9780810821989This is an encyclopedic listing of all the special animated television presentations aired on the various networks or syndicated extensively in the United States, from the first in 1962 through the 1986-1987 season.
Cable television prime time programming, 1990-2010 by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780786470877This reference work is an authoritative chronicle of prime time television programming on 20 major cable networks: A&E, ABC Family, AMC, BET, Bravo, Comedy Central, The Disney Channel, FX, GSN, HBO, Lifetime, MTV, Nickelodeon, Oxygen, Showtime, Spike, TBS, TNT, USA and VH1. These 20 represent the mass-oriented cable networks that have been most involved in airing original programming. ...
Children's television, the first thirty-five years, 1946-1981 by Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1992.8 .C46 W6 1985ISBN: 1579583946The Encyclopedia of Television is the first major reference work to provide description, history, analysis, and information on more than 1100 subjects related to television in its international context.
The complete directory to prime time network and cable TV shows, 1946-present by Call Number: Library Depository PN 1992.18 .B68 2003ISBN: 9780345455420This is the must-have book for TV viewers in the new millennium ; the entire history of prime-time programs in one convenient volume. It's a guide you'll turn to again and again for information on every series ever telecast. There are entries for all the great shows, from evergreens like I Love Lucy,The Honeymooners, and Happy Days, to modern classics like Will & Grace, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Friends; all the gripping sci-fi series, from Captain Video and The X-Files to all versions of Star Trek; the popular serials, from Peyton Place to Dallas to Dawson's Creek; and ...
The encyclopedia of 20th-century American television by Call Number: Library Depository PN 1992.18 .L33 2003ISBN: 9780816045549A reference of American 20th-century television and a celebration of the medium. It provides a historical guide to the programmes, personalities and practices of network television from its early days to the end of the century. From game shows to the nightly news, from sitcoms to serious dramas and everything in between, more than 1000 entries provide story synopses, biographies, production histories, air dates, and more.
Encyclopedia of television by Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1992.18 .E53 2004 v.1-4ISBN: 9781579583941Publication Date: 2nd ed.The Encyclopedia of Television is the first major reference work to provide description, history, analysis, and information on more than 1100 subjects related to television in its international context. ...
Encyclopedia of television shows, 1925 through 2007 by Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1992.3 .U5 T463 2009ISBN: 9780786433056Before the Internet and the rise of scholarship on popular culture, Vincent Terrace built his reputation as one of the leading researchers in television reference. This work represents decades of research and spans the entire history of television. While documentation regarding cast and personnel is now often found online, descriptions of the shows from authoritative sources are still not widely available. Terrace fills that gap with this work, which covers more than 9,350 shows (including pilots!) and constitutes the most comprehensive documentation of television series ever published. All the traditional genres are here along with show genres not well covered elsewhere-including children's programming, talk and advice shows, game shows, opera, stage plays, women's programming, dance, documentary television, and more.
Movies made for television, 1964-2004 by Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1992.8 .F5 M337 2005 v.1-5ISBN: 9780810851740Television historian Alvin H. Marill has compiled a comprehensive listing of every film made for television since the first was broadcast in 1964. Each entry cites the film's original network, airdate, length of broadcast, extensive production credits (director, writer, producer, composer, director of photography, and editor), and a complete cast (and character) listing, as well as a brief summary. Five volumes including complete actor and director indexes.
