Download or read book Television Criticism written by Victoria O'Donnell and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2007 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Television Criticism presents an original treatment of television criticism with a foundational approach to the nature of criticism, an understanding of the business of television, production background in creating television style, in-depth chapters on storytelling and narrative theories and television genres, the interaction of rhetoric and cultural studies theories, representation, and postmodernism. It presents new and comprehensive guidelines for analysis and criticism, and it has a sample critique of the television program "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation."