The Television Genre Book

GLEN CREEBER is Senior Lecturer in Film and Television at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He is the author of Dennis Potter: Between Two Worlds (Palgrave, 1998) and of The Singing Detective in the BFI TV Classics series (2007).

Preface (1st Edition) Preface (2nd Edition) Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors What is Genre? Genre Theory; G.Creeber Studying Genre; S.Neale Television and Genre; S.Neale The Uses and Limitations of Genre; G.Turner Genre, Hybridity and Mutations; G.Turner Genre, Format and 'Live' TV; G.Turner Genre Study - Beyond the Text (Lost); J.Mittell Drama Studying Drama (G.W. Brandt/J. Tulloch); R.Nelson The Single Play (The Wednesday Play/Play for Today; G.Creeber) The Western (Alias Smith& Jones); W.Boddy, (Deadwood; G.Creeber) The Action Series (Man from UNCLE/Avengers); T.Miller (24; G.Creeber) The Crime Series (Hill Street Blues); L.Cooke (CSI) (The Sopranos; G.Creeber) Hospital Drama (ER); J.Jacobs Science Fiction (Star Trek) -- Luke Hockley (The X-Files; C.Johnson), (Dr. Who; M.Hills) Drama-Documentary (Cathy Come Home/The Last Day; J.Corner) The Mini-Series (Roots/The Singing Detective; G.Creeber) Costume Drama (Pride& Prejudice); R.Nelson The Teen Series; R.Moseley (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; C.Johnson) Postmodern Drama (Twin Peaks); A.Page (Ally McBeal; R.Nelson), (Heroes; G.Creeber) Soap Opera Studying Soap Opera; A.McCarthy (Dallas; G.Creeber) Realism& Soap Opera (Soul City); A.McCarthy Soap Operas and their Audiences (A Country Practice); J.Tulloch The Telenovela (Brazillian Soaps); T.Tufte Comedy Studying Comedy: (Humour Theory); B.Mills The Sketch Show (Monty Python's Flying Circus); S.Neale, (Brass Eye; B.Mills) Situation Comedy part 1; J.Hartley Situation Comedy part 2 (The Unruly Woman Sitcom); J.Feuer, (Sex and the City; G.Creeber) The 'Gay'& 'Queer' Sitcom (Will& Grace); J.Feuer Contemporary Sitcom ('Comedy Verite') (The Office; B.Mills) Children's Television Studying Children's Television (Goodnight, Mr. Tom); M.Messenger-Davies The Child Audience (Pre-school Programming); M.Messenger-Davies Moral Panics (Teletubbies); P.Wells Children and Advertising; M.Griffiths News Studying Television News: (The Propaganda News Model: Herman& Chomsky); J.Lewis (The Glasgow Media Group; J.Harrison) Analysing the News; J.Lewis (How to Analyze a TV News Programme; J.Hartley) Constructing News Values (Gatekeeper Studies); J.Harrison Objectivity and Television News (BBC& Impartiality); J.Harrison The Infotainment Debate; J.Hartley The Globalisation of Television News (CNN- Cable News Network); J.Hartley Citizen Journalism (Al-Jazeera); J.Harrison Documentary Studying Documentary; J.Corner Form& Content in Documentary Study; J.Corner Documentary and Realism (Documentary Fakes); J.Corner Observational Documentary - Fly-on-the-Wall - (New Reflexive Documentary); S.Bruzzi Educational Programming (Discovery Channel& Walking With Dinosaurs); K.J.Donnelly Reality Television Introduction (Big Brother); J.Dovey Studying Reality TV (Audiences and Reality TV); A.Hill Docu-Soaps (Accidental Footage); S.Bruzzi Reality Talent Shows (Strictly Come Dancing); A.Hill Make Over Shows (Supernanny); A.Hill Animation Studying Animation; P.Wells TV Animation: A Brief Overview (TV Anime and Japanese Aesthetics); P.Wells Children's Cartoons (Cartoon Controversies); P.Wells Adult Animation (Adult Swim); P.Wells, (The Simpsons/South Park); K.Donnelly Popular Entertainment The Populist Debate; T.Miller The Quiz Show (Who Wants to be a Millionaire?); W.Boddy The Celebrity Talk Show (The Tonight Show); J.Shattuc The Confessional Talk Show (The Oprah Winfrey Show); J.Shattuc Sport (The Super Bowl); R.Brookes Music on Television (MTV) K.J.Donnelly Ordinary Television; F.Bonner Daytime TV; J.Hartley Advertising (The Levi's 501 'Launderette' Commercial); D.Chandler Bibliography Index