Gray and Lotz present a comprehensive synthesis of the theories and methods that have defined television studies so far, bringing together a wide range of critical models for studying the medium's past, present and future. Undergraduates will love this highly engaging book. Laurie Ouellette, University of Minnesota. Jonathan Gray is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at University of Wisconsin, Madison.

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This book answers these questions by tracing the history of television studies right up to the digital present, surveying emerging scholarship, and addressing new questions about the field’s relationship with the digital.

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Jonathan Gray brings together textual theory, discussions of television and the public sphere, and ideas of parody and comedy.

Television Studies provides an overview of the origins,central ideas, and intellectual traditions of television studies. The book charts the establishment of the field, and examines itsvarious approaches and objects of study. What have been the primary areas of inquiry in television studies?Why and how did these areas develop? How have scholars studiedthem? How are they developing? What have been televisionstudies’ key works?

Jonathan Gray is Assistant Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University.

Jonathan Gray is Assistant Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University.

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Television studies is an academic discipline that deals with critical approaches to television. Defining the field is problematic; some institutions and syllabuses do not distinguish it from media studies or classify it as a subfield of popular culture studies.