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Television Criticism
Third Edition
- Victoria O'Donnell - Montana State University, USA
April 2016 | 272 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
Television Criticism, Third Edition by Victoria O’Donnell provides a foundational approach to the nature of television criticism. Rhetorical studies, cultural studies, representation, narrative theories, and postmodernism are established for greater understanding and appreciation of the critical perspectives on television. Illustrated with contemporary examples, this updated Third Edition includes a new, extensive sample critical analysis of The Big Bang Theory and reflects recent changes in the ways television is viewed across multiple devices and the impact of the Internet on television.
PART I: ORIENTATION
Chapter 1: The Work of the Critic
Chapter 2: Demystifying the Business of Television
PART II: FORMAL ASPECTS OF TELEVISION
Chapter 3: Production Techniques and Television Style
Chapter 4: Television, the Nation’s Storyteller
Chapter 5: Television Genres
PART III: THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO TELEVISION CRITICISM
Chapter 6: Rhetoric and Culture
Chapter 7: Representation and Its Audience
Chapter 8: Postmodernism
PART IV: CRITICAL APPLICATIONS
Chapter 9: Guidelines for Television Criticism
Chapter 10: Sample Criticism of a Television Program: The Big Bang Theory—Season 8, Episode 824, “The Commitment Determination”
This book is a great resource and very relevant. Unfortunately it arrived late (August, 2020). We are not able to decide in time.
Communications, University of Zambia
September 24, 2020
Very useful for theorising the viewing of content across multiple devices, students commented that this feels like a really up-to-date way of considering television
Interdiscipline , University for the Creative Arts
March 24, 2016
