Visible Fictions: Cinema: Television: Video, Second Edition Routledge John Ellis Paperback © 1992 ISBN: 0-415-07513-0 Publication Status: In Print Readership: Undergraduates and postgraduates; media, film and cultural studies The revised edition of this unique work, now a standard text, John Ellis combines an examination of the cinema and television industries with a detailed analysis of their aesthetic and semiotic characteristics. John Ellis uses new developments in theory of narrative and the place of the spectator to re-explore his definition of cinema and broadcast TV as interdependent rather than interchangeable cultural forms, with their own distinct social roles. In a new chapter, he discusses the `meaning routines' fundamental to television broadcasting in TV news and soaps, and explores the legacy of the home video boom of the eighties and the replacement of the drive-in with the `stay-in'. Considering whether, as its cultural importance diminishes, television is now about to experience a kind of liberation, he expresses his notion of an unfolding and unpredictable revolution in broadcasting. Published in English , First Published in the EU July 1992 Size: 304 pages, Dimensions: 216x138mm 5.5x8.5 inches

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