TVCrit Gallery
Dozens of illustrations prepared for the Television textbook are presented in color and in higher resolution than in the book. In addition, the TVCrit Gallery includes illustrative video and audio clips.
- Sections of the Gallery are only open to Television readers, who will find a password on page x (Roman numeral ten) of the book. To view movies, for example, you must first log in using this password (see form on left).
More information about Television is available online at TVCrit.com.
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Chapter 02 Narrative Structure: Television Stories
Topics include: the theatrical film, the made-for-television film (MOW), the television series, the television serial.
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Chapter 03 Building Narrative: Character, Actor, Star
Topics include: building characters, building performances, the star system
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Chapter 04 Beyond and Beside Narrative Structure
Topics include: television’s reality, forms and modes, genres.
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Chapter 05 Style and Setting: Mise-en-Scene
Topics include: set design, lighting design, actor movement.
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Chapter 06 Style and the Camera: Videography and Cinematography
Topics include: basic optics, image definition and resolution, color and black and white, framing, in-camera special effects.
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Chapter 07 Style and Editing
Topics include: single-camera mode of production, multiple-camera mode of production
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Chapter 08 Style and Sound
Topics include: types of television sound, purposes of sound on television, acoustic properties and sound technology, space, time, and narrative.
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Chapter 09 A History of Television Style
Topics include: technological manifest destiny, visual elements of television style, aural elements of television style.
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Chapter 10 Music Television
Topics include: music television and music video, antecedents and influences, how music television organizes time, how music television relates to its audience, types of music video, the sound of video, the look of video.
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Chapter 11 Animated Television: The Narrative Cartoon
Topics include: beginnings, the aesthetics of the 1930s sound cartoon, Disney’s domination, UPA abstraction, television’s arrival, TV cartooning since the 1980s.
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Chapter 12 The Television Commercial
Topics include: U.S. TV’s economic structure, the polysemy of commodities, the persuasive style of commercials.
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Chapter 13 Television Studies: Alternatives to Empirical Approaches
Topics include: empirical research and television, critical research and television.
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TV Programs
Frame grabs from various TV programs, most of which were not included in the book, Television.
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