Television: Visual Storytelling and Screen Culture
For over two decades, Television has served as the foremost guide to television studies, offering readers an in-depth understanding of how television programs and commercials are made and how they function as producers of meaning. Author Jeremy G. Butler shows the ways in which camera style, lighting, set design, editing, and sound combine to produce meanings that viewers take away from their television experience.

Highlights of the fifth edition include:

  • An entirely new chapter by Amanda D. Lotz on television in the contemporary digital media environment.
  • Discussions integrated throughout on the latest developments in screen culture during the on-demand era—including the impact of binge-watching and the proliferation of screens (smartphones, tablets, computer monitors, etc.).
  • Updates on the effects of new digital technologies on TV style.
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Television: Visual Storytelling and Screen Culture
For over two decades, Television has served as the foremost guide to television studies, offering readers an in-depth understanding of how television programs and commercials are made and how they function as producers of meaning. Author Jeremy G. Butler shows the ways in which camera style, lighting, set design, editing, and sound combine to produce meanings that viewers take away from their television experience.

Highlights of the fifth edition include:

  • An entirely new chapter by Amanda D. Lotz on television in the contemporary digital media environment.
  • Discussions integrated throughout on the latest developments in screen culture during the on-demand era—including the impact of binge-watching and the proliferation of screens (smartphones, tablets, computer monitors, etc.).
  • Updates on the effects of new digital technologies on TV style.
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Television: Visual Storytelling and Screen Culture

Television: Visual Storytelling and Screen Culture

by Jeremy G. Butler
Television: Visual Storytelling and Screen Culture

Television: Visual Storytelling and Screen Culture

by Jeremy G. Butler

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Overview

For over two decades, Television has served as the foremost guide to television studies, offering readers an in-depth understanding of how television programs and commercials are made and how they function as producers of meaning. Author Jeremy G. Butler shows the ways in which camera style, lighting, set design, editing, and sound combine to produce meanings that viewers take away from their television experience.

Highlights of the fifth edition include:

  • An entirely new chapter by Amanda D. Lotz on television in the contemporary digital media environment.
  • Discussions integrated throughout on the latest developments in screen culture during the on-demand era—including the impact of binge-watching and the proliferation of screens (smartphones, tablets, computer monitors, etc.).
  • Updates on the effects of new digital technologies on TV style.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781138744004
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 02/26/2018
Edition description: 5th ed.
Pages: 422
Product dimensions: 7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Jeremy G. Butler is Professor of Journalism and Creative Media at the University of Alabama. He has taught television, film, and new media courses since 1980 and is active in online educational resources for television and film studies.

Table of Contents

PART I TELEVISION STRUCTURES AND SYSTEMS

1. Television Structures and Systems: Ebb and Flow in the Network Era

2. Television Structures and Systems: Ebb and Flow in the Postnetwork Era - Amanda Lotz

3. Narrative Structure: Television Stories

4. Building Narrative: Character, Actor, Star

5. Beyond and Beside Narrative Structure

6. The Television Commercial

PART II TELEVISION STYLE: IMAGE AND SOUND

7. An Introduction to Television Style: Modes of Production

8. Style and Setting: Mise-en-Scene

9. Style and the Camera: Videography and Cinematography

10. Style and Editing

11. Style and Sound

PART III TELEVISION STUDIES

12. An Introduction to Television Studies

13. Textual Analysis

14. Discourse and Identity

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