References for the Study of Television
(with web page
links)
Primary
Recommendations:
Ang, Ien. Watching Dallas:
Soap Opera and the Melodramatic Imagination. London: Methuen, 1985.
Ellis, John. Visible Fictions. London, 1983.
Ellul, Jacques. The Technological Society. New York:
Vintage, 1964.
Fairclough, Norman. Critical Discourse Analysis. London:
Longman, 1995.
Fiske, John &
Hartley, John. Reading Television. London,
1978.
Fiske, John. Television Culture. Routledge, 1987.
Hall, Stuart. “Coding and Encoding in
the Television Discourse.” Stuart Hall et al., eds. Culture, Media, Language. London: Hutchinson, 1980. 197-208.
---. “Culture, the Media and
Ideological Effect.” J. Curran et al., eds. Mass
Communication and Society. London: Edward Arnold, 1977.
Hartley, John. Tele-ology: Studies in Television.
Routledge, 1993.
Hodge and Trip. Children and Television. Cambridge: Polity, 1986.
Mellencamp, Patricia,
ed. Logics
of Television. Indiana: IUP, 1990.
Morley, David. The “Nationwide” Audience. London: BFI, 1980.
Selby, K and R. Cowdery.
How to Study Television. Houndmills: Macmillan, 1995.
Tulloch, John. Television Drama: Agency, Audience and Myth. London: Routledge,
1990.
Williams, Raymond. Television, Technology and Cultural Form. London:
Fontana, 1974.
Williamson, Judith. Decoding Adverts: Ideology and Meaning in Advertising. London: Marion Boyers, 1978.
Secondary
Recommendations:
Adorno, T. The Culture Industry. London: Routledge, 1991.
Bennett, Tony et al, eds. Popular Television & Film. London:
BFI, 1981.
Bennett, Tony, ed. Popular Fiction: Technology, Ideology, Production, Reading. London: Routledge, 1990.
Blanchard, Simon & Morley, David,
eds. What's this Channel Four?
London, 1982.
Carey, J., ed. Media, Myths, and Narratives: Television and the Press. London:
Sage, 1988.
Curran, J. & Seaton, J. Power Without Responsibility. 4th ed.
London: Routledge, 1991.
Fiske, J. &
Hartley, J. Reading Television. London: Routledge,
1978.
Gray, A. and J. McGuigan,
eds. Studying Culture: An Introductory
Reader. London: Edward Arnold, 1993.
Gurevitch, M. et al,
eds. Culture, Society and the Media.
London: Routledge, 1982.
Hebdige, D. Subculture: The Meaning of Style.
London: Routledge, 1982.
Livingstone, Sonia M. Talk on Television. London: Routledge,
1993.
Masterman, Len, ed. Television Mythologies: Stars, Shows &
Signs. London: Macmillan, 1984.
McQuail, D. Mass Communication Theory: An Introduction. 3rd
ed. London: Sage, 1994.
Mulvey, L. Visual & Other Pleasures. London:
Macmillan, 1989.
Neale, Steve and Krutnik, Frank. Popular Film and Television Comedy. London: Macmillan, 1990.
Philo, Greg. Seeing and Believing: The Influence of Television. London:
Routledge, 1990.
Web Page Links
“TV: Re-Situating the
Popular in the People,” an article by John Fiske
The Popular Culture
Site
University of Berkeley’s “Pop Culture” database
MCS:
Daniel Chandler’s Media and Communication Studies Site. The “television studies page” has a host of
useful links to recent work about television.