BOOK COVER -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- WHY FISKE STILL MATTERS -- JOHN FISKE AND TELEVISION CULTURE -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- 1 SOME TELEVISION, SOME TOPICS, AND SOME TERMINOLOGY -- 2 REALISM -- 3 REALISM AND IDEOLOGY -- 4 SUBJECTIVITY AND ADDRESS -- 5 ACTIVE AUDIENCES -- 6 ACTIVATED TEXTS -- 7 INTERTEXTUALITY -- 8 NARRATIVE -- 9 CHARACTER READING -- 10 GENDERED TELEVISION: FEMININITY -- 11 GENDERED TELEVISION: MASCULINITY -- 12 PLEASURE AND PLAY -- 13 CARNIVAL AND STYLE -- 14 QUIZZICAL PLEASURES -- 15 NEWS READINGS, NEWS READERS -- 16 CONCLUSION: THE POPULAR ECONOMY -- REFERENCES -- NAME INDEX -- SUBJECT INDEX.
A comprehensive introduction to television studies. Fiske analyzes both the economic and cultural aspects of television and investigates it in terms of both theory and text based criticism.