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  5. Introduction

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
  • TV audiences
  • TV advertising
  • TV reviews
  • TV genres This link opens in a new window
  • Quality television
  • Children's television
  • Sports on TV
  • Racial & ethnic representation on TV
    • African American diaspora
    • Asian American diaspora
    • Hispanic American diaspora
    • Native American & Indigenous diaspora
  • Women on/in/creating Television
    • Examples of women on television
  • LGBTQIA+
    • Examples of LGBTQIA+ on television
  • Television broadcasting & networks
  • Global television
  • Television in Europe
  • Chinese television
  • Spanish language TV
  • Public access television
  • Television news
  • Mass media industry
  • Transcripts
  • Television through the decades
    • 1950's Television & Earlier
    • 1960's Television
    • 1970's Television
    • 1980's Television
    • 1990's Television
    • 2000's Television
    • 2010's Television
  • Streaming television
  • Streaming film services
  • Internet resources
  • Future of Media
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New Books on Television in the Library's Collections

Find new books about television in the library's collections. Starting from 2022 to the present.

Key article indexes for Television

You can find articles about television in a variety of publications. The following databases are the most relevant to use for searching. You can also start your search in the box at the top of the page.

  • Resource logoCommunication & mass media complete (CMMC) by Ebsco
    • On Campus or VPN
    • Database
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    This is the main article index for the field of Communications and Mass Media.
  • Resource logoFilm & television literature index
    • On Campus or VPN
    • 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 logoFilm literature index by Film and Television Documentation Center; Indiana University
    • On Campus or VPN
    • Database
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    The Film Literature Index (FLI) annually indexes 150 film and television periodicals from 30 countries cover-to-cover and 200 other periodicals selectively for articles on film and television.
  • Resource logoPerforming arts periodicals database
    • On Campus or VPN
    • Database
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    Performing Arts Periodicals Database covers a broad spectrum of the arts and entertainment industry - including dance, drama, theater, stagecraft, musical theater, circus performance, opera, pantomime, puppetry, magic, performance art, film, television and more.
  • 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.

New books, etc. ...

  • Cover artBirth of the binge: serial TV and the end of leisure by Dennis Broe
    • On Campus or VPN
    • E-Book
    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9780814345269
    Birth of the Binge: Serial TV and the End of Leisure describes and details serial television and "binge watching," the exceedingly popular form of contemporary television viewing that has come to dominance over the past decade. Dennis Broe looks at this practice of media consumption by suggesting that the history of seriality itself is a continual battleground between a more unified version of truth-telling and a more fractured form of diversion and addiction. Serial television is examined for the ways its elements (multiple characters, defined social location, and season and series arcs) are used alternately to illustrate a totality or to fragment social meaning. ...
  • Console-ing passions series by Duke University Press
    • Book
    Call Number: Check the catalog for actual location
    Console-ing Passions: Television and Cultural Power serves as a major focus for cultural studies of television. The series will examine television's significance as a form of cultural expression and a medium of social power. ...
  • Cover artEncyclopedia of television pilots, 1937-2012 by Vincent Terrace
    • On Campus or VPN
    • E-Book
    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9780786474455
    This reference work, the most complete guide to aired and unaired television pilot films ever published (or made available in any way), contains 5,190 alphabetically arranged programs, each with storyline information, performer and character cast listings, producers, air dates (where applicable), genre, and network or cable association. Also included are the unaired versions of pilots that became a series (like 90 Bristol Court, Hazel, The Middle and Perfect Strangers) and the updates of aired series that were never telecast (e.g., The Robinsons: Lost in Space, the 1997 version of Hawaii Five-0, the 2011 Wonder Woman and the 2001 Electra Woman and Dyna Girl).
  • Cover artEncyclopedia of weird detectives: supernatural and paranormal elements in novels, pulps, comics, film, television, games and other media by Paul Green
    • On Campus or VPN
    • E-Book
    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9781476678009
    The detective genre has explored supernatural and paranormal themes throughout its colorful history. Stories of detectives investigating spiritualists, ghostly apparitions, the occult and psychics have spanned pulp fiction magazines, comic books, novels, film, television, animation and video games. This encyclopedia covers the history of the genre in its multiple forms and informs and adds to the knowledge of either the new or informed reader. ...
  • Cover artRace in American television: voices and visions that shaped a nation by David J. Leonard; Stephanie Troutman, eds.
    • On Campus or VPN
    • E-Book
    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9781440843051
    This encyclopedia explores representations of people of color in American television. It includes overview essays on early, classic, and contemporary television and the challenges, developments, and participation of minorities on and behind the screen. ...
  • Cover ArtTelevision's spatial capital: location, relocation, dislocation by Myles McNutt
    • On Campus or VPN
    • E-Book
    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9781003224693
    This book launches a comprehensive detailing of the dramatic expansion of the geography of television production into new cities, states, provinces, and countries, and how those responsible for shaping the "landscape" of television have been forced to adapt, taking established strategies for engaging with space and place through mediated representation and renegotiating them to account for the new map of television production. Modeling media studies research that considers the intersection of production, textuality, distribution, and reception, Myles McNutt identifies how the expansion of where television is produced has intersected with the kinds of places represented on television, and how shifts in the production, distribution, and consumption of television content have shifted the burden of representing cities and countries both locally and internationally. ...
  • Cover ArtTonight, on a very special episode: when TV sitcoms sometimes got serious by Lee Gambin, ed.
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1992.8 .C66 T66 2020
    ISBN: 9781629336350
    Remember when Edith Bunker was sexually assaulted on All in the Family? Or when abortion was the hot topic on Maude? Did you know that Leave it to Beaver dealt with alcoholism and that "The Bicycle Man" double episode from Diff'rent Strokes is one of the most remembered sitcom entries in the annals of American television history? The role of the Very Special Episode was to take a departure from the regular comic stylings of the American TV sitcom and offer a standalone "serious in nature" gesture in addressing subject matter not normally found in such a medium. ...

Awards for Television

  • Emmys
    • Link
    Search the Emmy site database to find who won what, when.
  • HFPA & the Golden Globes
    • Link
    The Hollywood Foreign Press Association is a group of journalists who cover the movie industry. Not only do they bestow the Golden Globes, but are philanthropic as well.
  • NAACP Image Awards
    • Link
    Spanning 60 categories, the NAACP Image Awards celebrates outstanding achievements of people of color in the arts—television, music, literature, and film—and also honors individuals and groups who promote social justice through creative endeavors.
  • NAB Awards for Television
    • Link
    The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) awards the Marconis to radio broadcasters in 22 categories.
  • Peabody Awards logo
    Peabody Awards
    • Link
    The George Foster Peabody Awards were first awarded in 1941. The awards recognize distinguished achievement and meritorious service by radio and television networks, stations, producing organizations, cable television organizations and individuals. The awards program is administered by the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia. Selection is made by the Peabody Board following review by special screening committees of faculty, students and staff.
  • SAG-AFTRA
    • Link
    SAG-AFTRA represents approximately 160,000 actors, announcers, broadcast journalists, dancers, DJs, news writers, news editors, program hosts, puppeteers, recording artists, singers, stunt performers, voiceover artists and other media professionals. SAG-AFTRA members are the faces and voices that entertain and inform America and the world.
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    SAG-AFTRA brings together two great American labor unions: Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. Both were formed in the turmoil of the 1930s, with rich histories of fighting for and securing the strongest protections for media artists. ...
  • Telly Awards
    • Link
    These awards honor the best in regional, local and cable television commercials, programs and segments. They also honor online videos, films and commercials.

Internet resource(s)

  • Aca-Media - Talking Television from (SCMS & JCMS)
    • Podcast
    • Link
    A podcast from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies and its journal about teaching television studies during global upheavals such as pandemics and social unrest.
  • AV Club logo
    TV from AV Club
    • Link
    Pop culture obsessives writing for the pop culture obsessed.

Keeping up with Television Studies journal literature

Want an easy way to keep up with the journal literature in Television? And you use a mobile device? You can install the BrowZine app and create a custom Bookshelf of your favorite journal titles. Then you will get the Table of Contents (ToCs) of your favorite journals automatically delivered to you when they become available. Once you have the ToC's you can download and read the articles you want.

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 now 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.

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