Television criticism

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Title:

Author:

O'Donnell, Victoria.

ISBN:

9781412941679

9781412941662

Personal Author:

O'Donnell, Victoria.

Publication Information:

Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, 2007.

Physical Description:

xvii, 261 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Contents:

The work of the critic -- Demystifying the business of television -- Television style -- Television, the nation's storyteller -- Television genres -- Rhetoric and culture -- Representation and its audience -- Postmodernism -- Guidelines for television criticism -- Sample criticism of a television show : CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.

Subject Term:

Television criticism.

Television criticism -- United States.

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Summary

Television Criticism presents an original treatment of television criticism with a foundational approach to the nature of criticism, an understanding of the business of television, production background in creating television style, in-depth chapters on storytelling and narrative theories and television genres, the interaction of rhetoric and cultural studies theories, representation, and postmodernism. It presents new and comprehensive guidelines for analysis and criticism, and it has a sample critique of the television program " CSI: Crime Scene Investigation."