Television culture /
This revised edition of a now classic text includes a new introduction by Henry Jenkins, explaining 'Why Fiske Still Matters' for today's students, followed by a discussion between former Fiske students Ron Becker, Aniko Bodroghkozy, Steve Classen, Elana Levine, Jason Mittell, Greg Sm...
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2011.
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Some television, some topics, and some terminology. The codes of television ; Some terminology
- Realism. The form of realism ; Realism and radicalism
- Realism and ideology. Popularity ; Realism and discourse ; Television and social change
- Subjectivity and address. The social subject ; The discursive subject ; Addressing the subject ; Psychoanalysis and the subject
- Active audiences. Text and social subjects ; Making meanings ; Modes of reception ; Gossip and oral culture ; The social determination of meanings
- Activated texts. The polysemy of the television text ; Open, writerly texts ; Producerly texts ; Segmentation and flow ; Television and culture
- Intertextuality. Horizontal intertextuality ; Genre ; Inescapeable intertextuality ; Vertical intertextuality : reading the secondary text ; The tertiary text ; Intertextuality and polysemy
- Narrative. Realism revisited ; Structuralist approaches to narrative ; Mythic narrative ; Narrative structures ; Narrative codes ; Televisual narrative
- Character reading. Realist and structural approaches ; Reading character from the primary text ; Reading character : the secondary texts ; Identification, implication, and ideology
- Gendered television : femininity. Soap opera form ; Disruption ; Deferment and process ; Sexuality and empowerment ; Excess ; Plenitude and polysemy ; The feminine as decentered
- Gendered television : masculinity. The structure of the masculine A-Team ; The absence of women ; The absence of work and marriage ; The A-Team as achievement ; The phallus, the penis, and porn ; Male bonding and the hero team ; Gender and narrative form
- Pleasure and play. Psychoanalysis and pleasure ; Pleasure and social control ; Pleasure, play, and control ; Pleasure and rule breaking ; Empowering play ; Pleasure and textuality
- Carnival and style. Rock 'n' wrestling ; Style and music video ; The pleasures of Miami vice ; Commodified pleasure
- Quizzical pleasures. Game and ritual ; Knowledge and power ; Luck ; Commodities ; The active audience ; Articulating quiz shows
- News readings, news readers. The strategies of containment ; Categorization ; Subcategories ; Objectivity ; Exnomination and inoculation ; Metaphor ; News narrative ; News analysis ; The forces of disruption
- Conclusion : the popular economy. The problem of the popular ; The two economies ; Popular cultural capital ; Resistance and semiotic power ; Diversity and difference.
- BOOK COVER
- TITLE
- WHY FISKE STILL MATTERS
- JOHN FISKE AND TELEVISION CULTURE
- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
- 1. SOME TELEVISION, SOME TOPICS, AND SOME TERMINOLOGY
- 2. REALISM
- 3. REALISM AND IDEOLOGY
- 4. SUBJECTIVITY AND ADDRESS
- 5. ACTIVE AUDIENCES
- 6. ACTIVATED TEXTS
- 7. INTERTEXTUALITY
- 8. NARRATIVE
- 9. CHARACTER READING
- 10. GENDERED TELEVISION: FEMININITY
- 11. GENDERED TELEVISION: MASCULINITY
- 12. PLEASURE AND PLAY
- 13. CARNIVAL AND STYLE
- 14. QUIZZICAL PLEASURES
- 15. NEWS READINGS, NEWS READERS
- 16. CONCLUSION: THE POPULAR ECONOMY
- NAME INDEX.
