Channels of Discourse: Television and Contemporary Criticism

by Robert C. Allen

Book Overview

Since its original publication in 1987, Channels of Discourse has provided the most comprehensive consideration of commercial television, drawing on insights provided by the major strands of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807841765
• ISBN13: 9780807841761
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A good starting point

I found this book to be very helpful in getting me up to speed on TV studies as it was in the '80s and early 90's. I would also suggest reading Corner's 1992 book Critical Ideas in Television Studies and Buonanno's new book The Age of Television: Experiences and Theories. Overall, this is worth the 5 or 6 bucks it will cost you to acquire.

Excellent Overview of Media Studies Methodologies

In a critical writing course I taught in Spring 2002, I used Channels of Discourse, Reassembled as the core text for the course readings. The many chapters within are written by the best of the best in the fields of media studies and cultural studies, and the methodologies are presented in an easy-to-read manner which is informative and full of examples and case studies. This is an excellent book for media studies students, as its chapters lay out the basic information they should know about many of the methodologies often used in media criticism.