The development of television studies / Horace Newcomb -- Critical perspectives on television from the Frankfurt School to postmodernism / Doug Kellner -- Television and history / Paddy Scannell -- Our TV heritage / Lynn Spigel -- Television as a moving aesthetic : in search of the ultimate aesthetic--the self / Julianne H. Newton -- Locating the televisual in golden age television / Caren Deming -- Television production : who makes American TV? / Jane M. Shattuc -- Who rules TV? : states, markets, and the public interest / Sylvia Harvey -- Public broadcasting and democratic culture : consumers, citizens, and communards / Graham Murdock -- Culture, services, knowledge : television between policy regimes / Stuart Cunningham -- Television advertising as textual and economic systems / Matthew P. McAllister -- Watching television : a political economic approach / Eileen R. Meehan -- Keeping "abreast" of MTV and Viacom : the growing power of a media conglomerate / Jack Banks -- The trade in television news / Andrew Calabrese.

Configurations of the new television landscape / Albert Moran -- The study of soap opera / Christine Geraghty -- The shifting terrain of American talk shows / Jane M. Shattuc -- Television and sports / Michael R. Real -- "Where the past comes alive" : television, history, and collective memory / Gary R. Edgerton -- "How will you make it on your own?" : television and feminism since 1970 / Bonnie J. Dow -- Television and race / Sasha Torres -- Television, public spheres, and civic cultures / Peter Dahlgren -- Television and public opinion / Justin Lewis -- Reality TV : performance, authenticity, and television audiences / Annette Hill -- A special audience? : children and television / David Buckingham -- Local community channels : alternatives to corporate media dominance / DeeDee Halleck -- Latin American commercial television : "Primitive capitalism" / John Sinclair -- Television in China : history, political economy, and ideology / Yuezhi Zhao and Zhenzhi Guo -- Japanese television : early development and research / Shunya Yoshimi -- Change and transformation in South African television / Ruth Teer-Tomaselli -- Television in the Arab East / Nabil H. Dajani.