Paperback, Comedia and authors 1984 First edition. Ex-library with associated stamps. Good condition.



Excellent book on the semiotics of television which brings the theories of Roland Barthes (Mythologies) into the televisual age. Includes:

• Charlotte Brunsdon's On Writing About Soap Opera


• John Hartley's Out of Bounds: The Myth of Marginality and;


• other seminal essays on pop culture by major theorists.