TELEVISION: CRITICAL METHODS AND APPLICATIONS has been called the “best textbook on television available today” (Ellen Seiter, USC). Originally published in 1994, its fourth edition has just been released by Routledge. Videography, editing, acting, set design, lighting and sound are analyzed and explained in terms of how they are used to tell stories, present news, and sell products to TV viewers. The methods and theories associated with the discipline of television studies are surveyed and explained in newly expanded chapters. Moreover, this student-friendly text provides critical and historical contexts, discussing how critical methods have been applied to the medium and highlighting the evolution of television style through the decades. TELEVISION is illustrated with hundreds of frame grabs from TV programs. A companion Website, hosted by Routlege, presents color versions of these black-and-white figures and augments them with video clips, sample student papers, syllabi, and other material. It will soon be available at: http://www.routledge/cw/butler HIGHLIGHTS OF THE NEW EDITION ***New chapter and part organization to reflect the current approach to teaching television—with greatly expanded methods and theories chapters. (See Table of Contents below.) ***An entirely new chapter on modes of production and their impact on what you see on the screen. ***Discussions integrated throughout on the latest developments in television’s on-going convergence with other media, such as material on transmedia storytelling and YouTube’s impact on video distribution. ***Over three hundred printed illustrations, including new and better quality frame grabs of recent television shows and commercials. Printed on heavier paper stock than the third edition, resulting in better reproduction of illustrations. ***A companion website featuring PowerPoint presentations, sample syllabi and other materials for instructors, as well as color frame grabs, a glossary, flash cards, and editing and sound exercises for students. ***Nearly 200 links to online videos that support examples in the text. Numerous video clips have been made available for the first time on CriticalCommons.org. With its distinctive approach to examining television, Television is appropriate for courses in television studies, media criticism, and general critical studies. EXAM COPIES Instructors may request a complimentary examination copy: http://www.routledge.com/resources/complimentary_exam_copy_request/9780415883283/ REVIEWS OF PREVIOUS EDITIONS "TELEVISION is 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 (Wisconsin) "This is, quite simply, the best book out there for teaching introductory TV courses. The text is well-conceived and engaging, and Butler does a superb job of illustrating the formal and aesthetic structures of television in a clear and readable manner." –Tara McPherson, USC "This book is a very important text in the field of television studies–indeed, it has been important, I believe, in the very establishment of the field as a significant and legitimate one." –Lynne Joyrich, Brown University ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Routledge's official site: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415883283/ Specific changes in the new edition that may be of interest to instructors: http://www.tcf.ua.edu/jbutler/tvcrit4/?p=101 Jeremy Butler will continue to maintain an author's blog, supplementing Routledge's official companion Website: http://www.tvcrit.com NEW TABLE OF CONTENTS Part I: Understanding Television’s Structures and Systems 1 An Introduction to Television Structures and Systems: Television’s Ebb and Flow in the Postnetwork Era 2 Narrative Structure: Television Stories 3 Building Narrative: Character, Actor, Star 4 Beyond and Beside Narrative Structure 5 The Television Commercial Part II: Television’s Style: Image and Sound 6 An Introduction to Television Style: Modes of Production 7 Style and Setting: Mise-en-Scene 8 Style and the Camera: Videography and Cinematography 9 Style and Editing 10 Style and Sound Part III: Television Studies 11 An Introduction to Television Studies 12 Textual Analysis 13 Discourse and Identity Glossary Appendix I Sample Analyses Appendix II Mass Communication Research -- Jeremy Butler www.TVCrit.com <http://www.tvcrit.com/> Professor - TCF Dept. - U Alabama ---- To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]