Television
Websites
- Television studies
- Lots of relevant links from the Voice of the Shuttle website.
- ScreenSite
- ScreenSite facilitates the teaching and research of film/TV/new media and is designed principally for educators and students. But everyone is welcome!
The site is sponsored by The University of Alabama, College of Communication & Information Sciences, and Department of Telecommunication and Film.
- Television Production
- "A Free, Interactive Course in Studio and Field Production by Ron Whittaker, Ph.D."
I'm naturally suspicious of free sites, but if this one has an ulterior motive, I can't discern it. What's certain is that there is an enormous amount of very practical information available on this site.
- EnhanceTV
- EnhanceTV helps you teach with TV. Find out about upcoming educational programs, get copies of broadcasts, and discover new teaching ideas and resources to inspire and engage students of all ages.
EnhanceTV is brought to you by Screenrights, the not-for-profit organisation that licenses educational institutions to copy from TV. Nearly all schools, TAFEs and universities in Australia have a Screenrights licence.
Access to the free teaching resources and TV guides on EnhanceTV, is available to Standard and Premium members. To purchase copies of programs broadcast on television, you must join as a Premium Member (ie. an educator from an Australian educational institution that has a Screenrights license).
- Royal Television Society
- The Royal Television Society is the leading forum for discussion and debate on all aspects of the television community.
The site includes a section with useful Television links.
Print material
To find books on television from a media point of view in the Library look up the Library Catalogue using the Subject Heading Television broadcasting.
There are also lots of books listed under the general heading Television, and its various subheadings such as Television advertising, Television programs, Television-Social aspects, and so on.
For technical aspects of the topic you need to search under the Subject Heading Television-Production and direction and its sub-headings.
There is a separate Subject Heading for books on Digital television.
Reference works
- Critical dictionary of film and television theory
- Edited by Roberta E. Pearson and Philip Simpson. London: Routledge, 2001.
We have an online version as well as a paper copy in our Reference collection.
- Encyclopedia of television
- Edited by Horace Newcomb. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1997.
Includes more than 1,000 original essays from more than 250 contributors and examines specific programs and people, historic moments and trends, major policy disputes and such topics as violence, tabloid television and the quiz show scandal. It also includes histories of major television networks as well as broadcasting systems around the world and is complemented by resource materials, photos and bibliographical information. The focus of the majority of the work on major English-speaking, television producing countries, and for that reason the bulk of the material presented here deals with television programs, people, and topics drawn from the United States, Britain, Canada and Australia.
We have an online version as well as a three-volume paper copy in our Main collection.
 This page was created and is maintained by Alan Keig
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