Ben Calvert & Bernadette Casey 
Television Studies: The Key Concepts [PDF ebook] 

Television Studies: The Key Concepts is the definitive reference guide to an area of rapidly expanding academic interest. Among those aspects of television studies covered in this comprehensive and up-to-date guide are: theoretical perspectives which have shaped the study of television — Marxism; semiology; feminism concepts which have shaped the study of television — narrative; representation; bias television genres — soap opera; news; science fiction methods used for understanding television — content analysis; audience research relevant social, economic and political phenomena — ownership; social policy.