For nearly two decades, Television: Critical Methods and Applications has served as the foremost guide to television studies. Designed for the television studies course in communication and media studies curricula, Television explains in depth 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. He supplies students with a whole toolbox of implements to disassemble television and read between the lines, teaching them to incorporate critical thinking into their own television viewing. The fourth edition builds upon the pedagogy of previous editions to best accommodate current modes of understanding and teaching television. Highlights of the fourth edition include: <ul>
<li>New chapter and part organization to reflect the current approach to teaching television―with greatly expanded methods and theories chapters.</li> <li>An entirely new chapter on modes of production and their impact on what you see on the screen.</li> <li>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. </li> <li>Over three hundred printed illustrations, including new and better quality frame grabs of recent television shows and commercials.</li> <li>A companion website featuring color frame grabs, a glossary, flash cards, and editing and sound exercises for students, as well as PowerPoint presentations, sample syllabi and other materials for instructors. Links to online videos that support examples in the text are also provided.</li> </ul>
With its distinctive approach to examining television, Television is appropriate for courses in television studies, media criticism, and general critical studies.

Television: Critical Methods and Applications (Routledge Communication Series)

Humor & Entertainment

Butler, Jeremy G.

Television

Routledge

Television: Critical Methods and Applications, 4th Edition

Television Style

Style matters. Television relies on style―setting, lighting, videography, editing, and so on―to set moods, hail viewers, construct meanings, build narratives, sell products, and shape information. Yet, to date, style has been the most understudied aspect of the medium. In this book, Jeremy G. Butler examines the meanings behind television’s stylstic conventions. Television Style dissects how style signifies and what significance it has had in specific television contexts. Using hundreds of frame captures from television programs, Television Style dares to look closely at television. Miami Vice, ER, soap operas, sitcoms, and commercials, among other prototypical television texts, are deconstructed in an attempt to understand how style functions in television. Television Style also assays the state of style during an era of media convergence and the ostensible demise of network television. This book is a much needed introduction to television style, and essential reading at a moment when the medium is undergoing radical transformation, perhaps even a stylistic renaissance. Discover additional examples and resources on the companion website: www.tvstylebook.com.

Radio

ANALYZING TELEVISION takes television seriously and has as its premise that students and teachers are also taking television seriously in courses on television criticism and aesthetics. The text starts with a look at narrative structure in television. Then it examines television style in settings, in camera style and principles, in editing and in sound. Finally the text looks at a variety of critical approaches to the study of television.

Television: Critical Methods and Applications

Business & Money

Industries

Cengage Learning'

Television: Critical Method and Applications

Television introduces students to the processes through which television tells stories, presents news, and sells products to its viewers. This accessible and student-friendly text explains how television constructs meaning and encourages readers to incorporate critical thinking into their TV viewing. Television contains hundreds of illustrations from current and classic TV programs, and a companion Web site (www.TVcrit.com) supplements the text with color frame grabs and illustrative video clips. New for this second edition is a chapter discussing television commercials and updated examples from recent television programs. This text examines how videography, acting, lighting, set design, editing, and sound work together to produce the meanings that viewers take away from their television experience, while also providing critical and historical contexts to explain how critical methods have been applied to the medium. Television is intended for courses in television critical studies, and is also suitable for media and screen studies.

Movies

Written in clear and lively prose, Television explains how television programs and commercials are made, and how they function as producers of meaning. Author Jeremy Butler demonstrates the ways in which cinematography and videography, acting, lighting, set design, editing, and sound combine to produce meanings that viewers take away from their television experience. This popular text teaches students to read between the lines, encouraging them to incorporate critical thinking into their own television viewing. Television provides essential critical and historical context, lucidly explaining how different critical methods have been applied to the medium, such as genre study, ideological criticism, and cultural studies. Hundreds of illustrations from television programs introduce the reader to the varied ways in which television goes about telling stories, presenting news, and selling products, and a companion Web site (www.TVcrit.com) supplements the text with color frame grabs and illustrative video clips. Highlights of this third edition include: *new segments on “reality” television and television animation since 1990; *an updated and expanded chapter surveying critical methods applied to television; *a wide variety of examples, including recent television shows; and *a supplemental DVD to provide teachers with video examples and exercises. With its distinctive approach to examining television, this text is appropriate for courses in television studies, media criticism, and general critical studies. In addition, Television will encourage critical thinking in television production courses.

Theories of film and television have traditionally neglected the significance of performance and the many functions of the screen star's image. Editing, framing, composition, and camera movement concerned early theorists more than theater based acting. What was lost in this emphasis on elements of film form was an understanding of the significance of human bodies-their movement and later, their speech-to the pleasures of the cinema. And yet spectators did not consciously watch movies for the editing or framing; they came to see vivid personalities in narrative situations. They came to see stars in performance.
Star Texts focuses on comprehending performance and stardom. Part One consists principally of the thoughts of film and theater directors and playwrights regarding the actor's creation of a character. There are influential statements on acting from Constantin Stanislavski, Lee Strasberg, and V. I. Pudovkin. Juxtaposed to their "naturalistic" approaches to performance are the theories of iconoclasts such as Bertolt Brecht, Lev Kuleshov, and Robert Bresson.
Parts Two through Four, in contrast, focus on the interpretation or reading of performance as it has been articulated by screen theorists. The essays in Part Two lean toward general principles of the "semiotics of acting" with some comments on the functions of individual stars. 
Part Three concentrates on particular star images, offering the reader more tangible evidence of the applicability of screen theory to performance texts. The essays in this section feature methodologically diverse analyses of individual stars including Shirley Temple, Humphrey Bogart, Lana Turner, Ingrid Bergman, Marilyn Monroe, and Rudolph Valentino. These essays all focus on the image of the star and refer to individual film performances to illustrate the themes on discourses associated with that star. Several of the authors then relate the star image to the society that produced it and/or the individual spectators who view it. 
Previously, most star analysis was concentrated on the cinema, but today's television stars enthrall viewers.Consequently, Part Four of Star Texts includes analyses of the television stars' functions as signifying elements within that medium.
The presence of stars is essential to the visual pleasures and economic structures created by television and cinema. In order to truly understand how they function and thus to enhance our own experience of film and television, studies of performance and star image, such as those in Star Texts, are vital.

Star Texts: Image and Performance in Film and Television (Contemporary Film and Television Series)

Wayne State University Press

Television: Visual Storytelling and Screen Culture

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. Highlights of the fifth edition include: <ul>
<li>An entirely new chapter by Amanda D. Lotz on television in the contemporary digital media environment.</li> <li>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.).</li> <li>Updates on the effects of new digital technologies on TV style.</li>
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Television: Critical Methods and Applications (Routledge Communication Series)

Television: Critical Methods and Applications, 4th Edition

Television Style

Television: Critical Methods and Applications

Television: Critical Method and Applications

Television: Critical Methods and Applications

Television: Critical Methods and Applications

Star Texts: Image and Performance in Film and Television (Contemporary Film and Television Series)

Television: Visual Storytelling and Screen Culture

Television: Visual Storytelling and Screen Culture