If you're interested in a starter book that deals with *both* film
and US-style television, then I humbly submit:
 
Jeremy G. Butler, TELEVISION:  CRITICAL METHODS AND APPLICATIONS
      (Belmont, CA:  Wadsworth, 1994).
 
It features a chapter introducing several major critical
approaches to film/TV.
 
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Number of the Best Actor/Actress Oscar nominees 1986-94 who played
a mentally or physically disabled person:  9.
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