Creator of television series such as Shameless, Clocking Off, State of Play, Reckless, Linda Green and Children's Ward, Paul Abbott is a British producer and writer whose name and reputation for edgy, intelligent, successful and socio-political programmes holds significant weight in the contemporary television industry and with the public. This is the first book-length academic study of the television programmes created, written by, and/or executive-produced, by Abbott. It is also the first academic study to attempt to consider his complete oeuvre. Within a broadly chronological structure this volume elucidates, decodes and evaluates key examples of Abbott's output, exhibiting a vital evaluation of Abbott's work over the past three decades and assessing his contribution to British television. Primarily, the volume presents an aesthetic analysis of televisual case studies. The case studies explore the technicity or 'grammar' of the televisual, including: colour, sound, diegetic and non-diegetic music, point of view, shot size, shot length, dialogue, the creation of space and place, on-location shooting, temporality, televisual narrative, performance and mise-en-scène. The disclosures of the close textual analysis are to be associated with a range of thematic, stylistic and representational motifs across the range of Abbott's work, thereby inaugurating discussions based upon the 'authorial voice', definitions of 'quality' television and the negotiation of generic boundaries. Engaging with thematic and ideological notions of the personal, the autobiographical, the honest, the shameless, the pleasurable and the painful recourse of the specificity of 'ordinary life', the volume seeks to combine close textual analysis of Abbott's work with archival research and specially commissioned interviews with Abbott and other important industry practitioners.

Paul Abbott (The Television Series)

Biographies & Memoirs

Johnson, Beth

Arts & Literature

Manchester University Press

Book by Johnson, Beth, Johnson, Leah, Johnson, Mary

From Junk to Jewelry

Children's Books

JOHNSON, Mary

Johnson, Leah

Activities, Crafts & Games

Willowisp Pr

Depicts the author's canoe trip with three female friends on the Yukon River through the wilderness of Canada and Alaska

Yukon Wild: The Adventures of Four Women Who Paddled 2,000 Miles Through America's Last Frontier

Berkshire House Pub

Profiles twenty young men and women of a variety of ethnic backgrounds whose courage and determination have helped them overcome such obstacles as poverty, racism, abuse, neglect, illness, and drugs.

Everyday Heroes

Townsend Pr

Instructors Guide to Everyday Heroes

Book by Judith Nadell, Beth Johnson, Paul Langan

Vocabulary Basics

Reference

Nadell, Judith

Langan, Paul

Words, Language & Grammar

Wedding Notebook: A Keepsake Guest Book For The Bridal Couple On Their Wedding Day

Independently published

Names of God Prayer Journal For Men: Undated 13-Week Notebook Focusing On The Names Of God And Scripture Study

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Pet Spa Appointment Book: Hourly Appointment Book

Business & Money

Processes & Infrastructure

Media Studies: Texts, Production, Context

Product Description 
This thoroughly revised and updated third edition provides a comprehensive introduction to the various approaches to the field, explaining why media messages matter, how media businesses prosper and why media is integral to defining contemporary life. 
The text is divided into three parts – Media texts and meanings; Producing media; and Media and social contexts – exploring the ways in which various media forms make meaning; are produced and regulated; and how society, culture and history are defined by such forms. Encouraging students to actively engage in media research and analysis, each chapter seeks to guide readers through key questions and ideas in order to empower them to develop their own scholarship, expertise and investigations of the media worlds in which we live. Fully updated to reflect the contemporary media environment, the third edition includes new case studies covering topics such as Brexit, podcasts, Love Island, Captain Marvel, Black Lives Matter, Netflix, data politics, the Kardashians, President Trump, ‘fake news’, the post-Covid world and perspectives on global media forms. 
This is an essential introduction for undergraduate and postgraduate students of media studies, cultural studies, communication studies, film studies, the sociology of the media and popular culture. 
 Review \n'In our deeply mediatised societies, Media Studies has never been more vital or more complex. The authors provide us with an updated, detailed, and decolonised, road-map to lead us through the fast-paced terrain of media change whilst also giving us the tools to respond with finely tuned critical analyses. Read this text to really get a grip of Media Studies as an evolving and exciting field of inquiry and practice.' 
Helen Wood, Lancaster University, UK 
'This is a great textbook. The breadth and range of chapters is incredibly impressive, proceeding accessibly and logically through the debates, with helpful and interesting contextual and biographical information about the key thinkers which bring their lives into relief for students. The book continues to serve as an extremely valuable teaching resource.'\nLisa Taylor, Leeds Beckett University, UK\n'This new, expanded, and enhanced edition of Media Studies is designed to give its readers the conceptual tools and encouragement to create their own vibrant practice of media analysis. Through its focus on the complex ways in which media makes meaning, its detailed attention to theoretical approaches to media studies, and its exploration of a wonderfully wide range of themes and topics, it is a volume from which instructors will learn as much as their students. Highly recommended.' \nImre Szeman, University of Waterloo, Canada\n'Media Studies is a comprehensive and up-to-date textbook on media studies for Anglophone readers. With intriguing examples and cases as well as clear explanations of key terms and theories, the authors expertly guide readers through getting involved in media text, production, consumption, and media in context. The best virtue of this book is how it makes the study of media ‘come alive’ by encouraging readers to try out research strategies for themselves, e.g., thinking aloud, posing questions, conducting your own analyses and even developing your own theories.' 
Younghan Cho, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, South Korea\n'With a fine critical eye, this new edition of Media Studies by Paul Long, Beth Johnson, Schem Rogerson Bader, Shana MacDonald and Tim Wall produces the sharpest analysis, and clearest explanations of this growing field of study. Their book will inspire and enable many researchers and practitioners to determine a more subtle understanding of how our interactions with media forms and industries are shaping the world. This new edition is as rich and dynamic as the media the authors invoke.' 
Toija Cinque, Deakin University, Australia 
'Media Studies is aimed at inspiring students to become curious

Politics & Social Sciences

MacDonald, Shana

Wall, Tim

LONG,PAUL

Rogerson Bader, Schem

Social Sciences

Routledge

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