For your consideration...

The companion Website for the new edition of TELEVISION: VISUAL STORYTELLING AND SCREEN CULTURE has just been launched:

http://www.routledgetextbooks.com/textbooks/9781138743960/default.php

A variety of teaching aids are available:

STUDENT RESOURCES

*Do-it-Yourself Video Editing Exercise
*Do-it-Yourself Sound Exercise
*Glossary of Key Terms
*Interactive Flashcards
*Image Gallery (color, high-res versions of all of the book's illustrations)
*Video Links (coming soon)

INSTRUCTOR RESOURCES

*Examination Copy
*PowerPoint Presentations for Every Chapter
*Bonus Chapters from Previous Editions
*Sample Syllabus
*Sample Student Papers

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE FIFTH EDITION

*An entirely new chapter by Amanda D. Lotz on television in the contemporary digital media environment.

*Discussions integrated throughout on the latest developments in screen culture during the on-demand era-including the impact of binge-watching and the proliferation of screens (smartphones, tablets, computer monitors, etc.).

*Updates on the effects of new digital technologies on TV style.

According to Routledge's marketing department:

"For over two decades, TELEVISION has served as the foremost guide to television studies, offering readers an in-depth understanding of how television programs and commercials are made and how they function as producers of meaning. Author Jeremy G. Butler shows the ways in which camera style, lighting, set design, editing, and sound combine to produce meanings that viewers take away from their television experience."

REVIEWS OF THE FIFTH EDITION

"In recent years, TV has radically changed and, simultaneously, tapped into genres and technical formulas pioneered decades ago. Butler's magisterial book-including a terrific new chapter by Amanda Lotz-enables us to make sense of it all. There is, quite simply, no more comprehensive resource for the student of television."

-Heather Hendershot, MIT

"Television remains the best book out there for introducing students to the art, industry, and culture of television as we actually experience it. An essential guide to the stories television tells, yesterday and today."

-Michele Hilmes, University of Wisconsin

"Instructors of undergraduate television studies courses know that Butler's Television is a smart, accessible, and indispensable teaching tool, whether our objects of study are The Beverly Hillbillies or Breaking Bad, Monday Night Football or Meet the Press. This exciting new edition incorporates up-to-date critical perspectives on the latest developments in a medium that keeps expanding across multiple modes of delivery, ways of watching, and forms of communication."

-Mary Desjardins, Dartmouth College

"Given television's pervasive presence in our personal and political lives today, it's vital to understand how TV works as an expressive form, a business, and a cultural force. Jeremy Butler's updated Television proves more indispensable  than ever before in exploring these facets of the medium."

-Christine Becker, University of Notre Dame



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Professor, JCM Department
University of Alabama


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