On Sun, 5 Dec 1999 15:31:34 -0500 shawn <[log in to unmask]> wrote in reply to Germain Lacasse <[log in to unmask]>: >re: television studies texts. >i'm sure you've recieved advice already, such as Horace Newcomb's >"Television:the critical view" which is a common undergraduate text. There >is also, of course, Jeremy Butler's "Television: Critical Methods and >Applications" Thanks for the plug, Shawn. Users of TV:CM&A may be interested to know that I'm currently working on a second edition. The revisions will be completed in summer 2000. Watch for the new edition in January 2001. I also will be changing publishers, but I hope that the interval between the two editions is fairly short. Wadsworth is still selling the first edition and will until they deplete their stock. More information about TV:CM&A and a sample chapter (in both HTML and PDF versions) may be found at: http://www.tcf.ua.edu/TVCMA >Might I also suggest: "The Television Studies Book" edited by Christine >Geraghty and David Lusted (Arnold Press, 1998). As well as "Critical Ideas >in Television Studies" by John Corner (Oxford, 1999). You may also want to >be familiar with "Channels of Discourse, reassembled" edited by Robert >Allen and "logics of Telvision" edited by Patricia Mellencamp. And, if you're interested in a book that draws most of its examples from British TV, there's also David McQueen, TELEVISION: A MEDIA STUDENT'S GUIDE (Arnold, 1998). Regards and best of luck with your course, >good luck >shawn shimpach >nyu cinema studies > > > I have been asked to teach a course about cinema and television. As I > >am already teaching cinema studies, I know much more about film than tv, > >but am surprised to see that despite hundreds of books about television, > >there seems to be no textbook about television studies, or introduction to > >television studies. I can quote 30 books about violence in television, but > >I found none that can summarize the field of television studies. I would > >appreciate a few hints, and to enlarge the scope, I accept suggestions for > >books in English, French, or Spanish. > > > > Thank you > > ---- Jeremy Butler [log in to unmask] ScreenSite http://www.tcf.ua.edu/ScreenSite Telecommunication & Film/University of Alabama/Tuscaloosa ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu