The television studies reader / edited by Robert C. Allen and Annette Hill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Institutions of television ; Introduction ; "Ises" and "oughts": public service broadcasting in Europe / Richard Collins ; Moving beyond the vast wasteland: cultural policy and television in the United States / Laurie Ouellette and Justin Lewis ; Protecting the citizen, protecting society / David Hutchison ; Australian's television culture / Tom O'Regan ; Telefeminism: how lifetime got its groove, 1984-1997 / Eileen Meehan and Jackie Byars -- Spaces of television ; Introduction ; Hollywood planet: global media and the competitive advantage of narrative transparency / Scott Olson ; Geolinguistic region as global space: the ase of Latin America / John Sinclair ; The global, the local and the public sphere / Colin Sparks ; Popular media as public 'Sphericules' for diasporic communities / Stuart Cunningham -- Modes of television ; Introduction ; A cultural approach to television genre theory / Jason Mittell ; Live television is still alive: on television as an unfulfilled / Jérôme Bourdon ; Codes and conventions of drama/doc and docu/drama / Derek Paget ; News as performance: the image as event / Margaret Morse ; Adworlds / John Corner ; Making sense of soaps / Robert C Allen ; The pie and the crust: television program formats / Albert Moran -- Making television ; Introduction ; Television production / John Ellis ; Modes of production / John T Caldwell ; Big Brother Australia: performing the 'real' twenty-four-seven / Jane Roscoe ; Studio discussions: social spaces and postmodernity / Sonia Livingstone and Peter Lunt ; Media pilgrims: on the set of Coronation Street / Nick Couldry ; Public access/private confession: home video as (queer) community television / Eric Freedman ; Hausa dramas and the rise of video culture in Nigeria / Brian Larkin -- Social representation on television ; Introduction ; Television, representation and gender / Julie D'Acci ; Primetime TV in the gay nineties: network television, quality audiences and gay politics / Ron Becker ; Welcome home?: CBS, PAX-TV, and 'heartland' values in a neo-network era / Victoria Johnson ; Broadcasting and the construction of the national family / David Morley ; 'The biggest show in the world': race and the global popularity of The Cosby show / Timothy Havens -- Watching television ; Introduction ; qualitative audience research / Ellen Seiter ; In the worst possible taste: children, television and cultural value / Hannah Davies, David Buckingham, and Peter Kelley ; Television while you wait / Anna McCarthy ; Defining cult TV: texts, inter-texts and fan audiences / Matt Hills ; Democratainment and DIY citizenship / John Hartley -- Transforming television ; Introduction ; Reality TV in the digital era: a paradox in visual culture? / Arild Fetveit ; Camcorder cults / Jon Dovey ; Living on Dawson's Creek: teen viewers, cultural convergence and television overflow / Will Brooker ; Postmodern virtualities / Mark Poster ; Social relationships and identity online and offline / Don Slater."