Description
In this important and wide-ranging text, Richard Collins combines original research with provocative analysis and argument. He focuses on the impact of new television technologies, national policies for television for television in North America and Europe, the effects of internationalisation, television news and documentaries and the history and likely development of media studies.
Table of Contents
Preface 1 Paradigm Lost? 2 Media Studies and Research on Information and Communication Technologies in the UK 3 The Language of Advantage: Satellite Television in Western Europe 4 The Prognosis for Satellite Television in the UK 5 White and Green and not much Re(a)d: The 1988 White Paper on Broadcasting Policy 6 Broadband Black Death Cuts Queues: The Information Society and the UK 7 Wall to Wall Dallas? The US-UK Trade in Television 8 Broadcasting and National Culture in Canada 9 National Culture: A Contradiction in Terms? 10 Walling Germany with Brass: Theoretical Paradigms in British Studies of Television News 11 Seeing is Believing: The Ideology of Naturalism
