Teaching Television at GCSE

by Eileen Lewis

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Television is an essential part of GCSE Media Studies and increasingly studied for English GCSE. This lively and stimulating guide summarises key critical and theoretical writings for further study and provides a range of approaches to teaching television, including practical and helpful advice for classroom work.

Contents include:

  • Introduction: Assessment contexts; Schemes or work;
  • Teaching television: Teaching issues; Television in English; Resources;
  • Studying television: A brief history; Public service broadcasting; Key concepts in Media Studies and English; Forms and conventions; Producers and audiences; Messages and values;
  • Case studies: Children’s television; TV soaps; TV drama; Reality TV; Documentary and documentary drama; TV advertising; TV crime drama; TV sitcom.

About the author:

Eileen Lewis is Chief Examiner for GCSE Media Studies for one of the English awarding bodies and Head Media and Film Studies at Maidstone Grammar School. She is a BFI Associate Tutor and a freelance writer of several textbooks and resources for Media Studies.

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Cat.No. BR081 £29.95

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Last Updated: 22 Mar 2010