[Please excuse the cross-postings.] Just released: TELEVISION: CRITICAL METHODS AND APPLICATIONS Second edition By Jeremy G. Butler, [log in to unmask] TELEVISION teaches students how to read between the scan lines. In clear and lively prose, utilizing hundreds of illustrations from TV programs, TELEVISION introduces students to the varied ways in which TV goes about telling stories, presenting news, and selling products. It shows how cinematography and videography, acting, lighting, set design, editing and sound all come together to produce the meanings that we take away from our television experience. Moreover, TELEVISION provides essential critical and historical context, lucidly explaining how different critical methods have been applied to the medium and how television style has evolved over the decades. For students, teachers, and general readers alike, TELEVISION makes available a critical toolkit for analyzing this ubiquitous medium. PRAISE FOR THE FIRST EDITION An ideal text for courses introducing television to undergraduates. Written with clarity and wit, it surveys a range of ways of analyzing a medium which young people, although they consume it voraciously, seldom scrutinize. -David Bordwell, University of Wisconsin The best textbook on television available today. Butler provides a comprehensive introduction to television genres, cultural and critical approaches, modes of production and formal and aesthetic analysis. -Ellen Seiter, UC-San Diego NEW IN THE SECOND EDITION * A completely new chapter on the television commercial that discusses its rhetorical meanings and style and outlines the general structure of the TV industry. (This chapter is currently available online.) * Updated examples and dozens of new illustrations--featuring images digitally captured from TV. * Improved clarity of the frame grabs from the first edition, all of which have been redone. * www.TVCrit.com : A companion Website with numerous supplemental materials (see below). CONTENTS Television's Ebb and Flow; Narrative Structure: Television Stories; Building Narrative: Character, Performance, Star; Beyond and Beside Narrative Structure; Style and Setting: Mise-en-Scene; Style and the Camera: Videography and Cinematography; Style and Editing; Style and Sound; A History of Television Style, by Gary Copeland; Music Television, by Blaine Allan; Animated Television: The Narrative Cartoon; The Television Commercial; Critical Methodology: Alternatives to Empirical Study; Appendix: Sample Analyses; Glossary; Index. COMPANION WEBSITE @ www.TVCrit.com : Development of TVCrit.com is underway, but some of the following features have not yet been implemented. * Video/sound clips illustrating principles of camera movement, editing, sound, and more. * Frame grabs from TV shows. All of the print edition's illustrations are available in color, enlarged versions--suitable for use in lectures and PowerPoint presentations. * Sample student papers. * Sample syllabi. PUBLICATION INFORMATION Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, ISBN 0-8058-4209-8 July 2001; 396 pp; 260 illustrations; $45. REVIEW COPIES To request a review copy for possible use in a course, please fill out this form: http://www.tcf.ua.edu/tvcrit/ReviewRequest.htm Or contact: Marisol Kozlovski Textbook Marketing Manager Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. 10 Industrial Avenue, Mahwah, NJ 07430-2262 201.236.9500, ext. 184 [log in to unmask] ONLINE ORDERS http://www.erlbaum.com/Books/searchintro/BookDetailscvr.cfm?ISBN=0-8058-4209-8 Or, if this link breaks, please go to the LEA Website and search for TELEVISION: http://www.erlbaum.com +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ E-MAIL ANNOUNCEMENTS We have begun an e-mail newsletter at TVCrit.com for occasional updates on the pre-release progress of TELEVISION (the book and the Website). If you would like to subscribe to this newsletter, please send e-mail to: [log in to unmask] and put the following in the body of the message: subscribe TVCrit YourName Replace "YourName" with your human name, as in: subscribe TVCrit Buffy Summers Or, if you'd rather just fill in an online form: http://www.tcf.ua.edu/tvcrit/newsletter.htm Any problems? Contact [log in to unmask] . ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu