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Television Studies by Lucinda M. Hall is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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.
Communication & Mass Media Complete (CMMC)Call Number: Online resourceThis is the main article index for the field of Communications.
Film & television literature indexCall Number: Electronic resourceThis 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.
Film literature index by Call Number: Electronic resourceThe 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.
Performing arts periodicals databaseCall Number: Electronic resourcePerforming 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.
The web of science citation databases by Call Number: Electronic resourceThe online version of 3 separate ISI indexes: Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index and, Social Sciences Citation Index.
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Birth of the binge: serial TV and the end of leisure by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780814345269Birth 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 byCall Number: Check the catalog for actual locationConsole-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. ...
Encyclopedia of television pilots, 1937-2012 by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780786474455This 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).
Encyclopedia of weird detectives: supernatural and paranormal elements in novels, pulps, comics, film, television, games and other media by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781476678009The 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. ...
Tonight, on a very special episode: when TV sitcoms sometimes got serious by Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1992.8 .C66 T66 2020ISBN: 9781629336350Remember 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
- HFPA & the Golden GlobesThe 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 AwardsSpanning 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 TelevisionThe National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) awards the Marconis to radio broadcasters in 22 categories.
- Peabody Awards
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-AFTRASAG-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.
- Telly AwardsThese 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)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.
Keeping up with Television Studies journal literature
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