Since its original publication in 1987 channels of discourse has provided the most comprehensive consideration of commercial television drawing on insights provided by the major strands of contemporary criticism semiotics narrative theory reception theory genre theory ideological analysis psychoanalysis feminist criticism and british cultural studiesthe second edition features a new . Since its original publication in 1987 channels of discourse has provided the most comprehensive consideration of commercial television drawing on insights provided by the major strands of contemporary criticism semiotics narrative theory reception theory genre theory ideological analysis psychoanalysis feminist criticism and british cultural studies. Since its original publication in 1987 channels of discourse has provided the most comprehensive consideration of commercial television drawing on insights provided by the major strands of contemporary criticism semiotics narrative theory reception theory genre theory ideological analysis psychoanalysis feminist criticism and british cultural studiesthe second edition features a new . Since its original publication in 1987 channels of discourse has provided the most comprehensive consideration of commercial television drawing on insights provided by the major strands of contemporary criticism semiotics narrative theory rece. Channels of discourse fills a significant gap in the critical literature on television the eight distinguished scholars whose essays make up the collection consider commercial televisionin relation to the major strands of contemporary literary cultural and cinematic criticism