The SAGE handbook of television studies / edited by Manuel Alvarado, Milly Buonanno, Herman Gray and Toby Miller.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Ownership and regulation -- How to study ownership and regulation / Des Freedman -- Regulation and ownership in the United States / Allison Perlman -- Television in Latin America : from commercialism to reform? / Mart�in Becerra, Guillermo Mastrini and Silvio Waisbord -- Ownership and regulation of television in anglophone Africa / Ruth Teer-Tomaselli -- Ownership and regulation in Europe / Stylianos Papathanassopoulos -- International regulation and organizations / Paschal Preston and Roderick Flynn -- Television in India : ideas, institutions and practices / Arvind Rajagopal -- Mexican research on TV : a tradition framed by a powerful quasi-monopolistic TV system / Guillermo Orozco -- Part II. Makers and making -- How to study makers and making / Miranda J. Banks -- The division of labor in television / Michael Curtin and Kevin Sanson -- From network to post-network age of US television news / Oliver Boyd-Barrett -- Hollywood story : diversity, writing and the end of television as we know it / Darnell Hunt -- Television cinematography / Deborah Tudor -- Options and exclusivity : economic pressures on TV writers' compensation and the effects of writers' room culture / Felicia D. Henderson -- A greener screening future : manufacturing and recycling as the subjects of television studies / Vicki Mayer and Clare Cannon -- Part III. Cultural forms -- Television program formats : their making and meaning / Albert Moran -- Cultural forms of television : sport / David Rowe -- Latin American telenovelas : affect, citizenship and interculturality / Andr�e Dorc�e -- Television news and current affairs / Kathleen M. Ryan, Lisa McLaughlin and David Sholle -- Music on television / Matthew Delmont -- Reality television / Mark Andrejevic -- Television drama / Jason Jacobs -- Sperm receptacles, money-hungry monsters and fame whores : reality celebrity motherhood and the transmediated grotesque / Brenda R. Weber and Jennifer Lynn Jones -- Part IV. Audiences, reception, consumption -- From the networks to new media : making sense of television audiences / Laura Grindstaff -- Effects and cultivation / Michael Morgan, James Shanahan and Nancy Signorielli -- Active audience and uses and gratifications / Helen Wood -- Raced audiences and the logic of representation / L.S. Kim -- Classed audiences in the age of neoliberal capitalism / Mike Wayne.

Bringing together a truly international spread of contributors from across the UK, US, South America, Mexico and Australia, this book charts the field of television studies from issues of ownership and regulation through to reception and consumption. Separate chapters are dedicated to examining the roles of journalists, writers, cinematographers, producers and manufacturers in the production process, whilst others explore different formats including sport, novella and soap opera, news and current affairs, music and reality TV. The final section analyses the pivotal role played by audiences in the contexts of gender, race and class, and spans a range of topics from effects studies to audience consumption. This book is an essential reference work for all advanced undergraduates, graduate students and academics across broadcasting, mass communication and media studies.