Television studies

Television studies is an academic discipline that deals with critical approaches to television. Usually, it is distinguished from mass-communication research, which tends to approach the topic from an Empiricism perspective.

Defining the field is problematic, and many institutions and syllabuses do not distinguish it from media studies. Television studies is roughly the equivalent of film studies in that it is concerned with textual analysis. Programmes such as Cathy Come Home attracted the interests of researchers for its filmic qualities.

The study of Reception theory and how audiences make meaning from texts is known as Media audience studies.

= Further reading =

*Robert C. Allen and Annette Hill, eds., The Television Studies Reader (New York: Routledge, 2004) *Jonathan Bignell, An Introduction to Television Studies (New York: Routledge, 2004) *Bernadette Casey, Neil Casey, Ben Calvert, Liam French, Justin Lewis, Television Studies: The Key Concepts (New York: Routlege, 2002) *John Corner, Critical Ideas in Television Studies (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999) *Christine Geraghty, David Lusted, eds., The Television Studies Book (New York: Arnold, 1998) *Toby Miller, ed., Television Studies (London: BFI, 2002).