TELEVISUALITY : style, crisis, and authority in american television.

TELEVISUALITY : style, crisis, and authority in american television.

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Although the "decline" of network television in the face of cable programming was an institutional crisis of television history, John Caldwell's classic volume Televisuality reveals that this decline spawned a flurry of new production initiatives to reassert network authority. Televis...

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Main Author: Caldwell, John Thornton, 1954-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] RUTGERS University Press, 2020.
Series:Communications, Media, and Culture Ser.
Subjects:
Television broadcasting > Social aspects > United States.
Television broadcasting > United States > History.
Television programs > United States > History and criticism.
Visual communication.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1. Excessive Style
  • Chapter 2. Unwanted Houseguests and Altered States
  • Chapter 3. Modes of Production
  • Chapter 4. Boutique
  • Chapter 5. Franchiser
  • Chapter 6. Loss Leader
  • Chapter 7. Trash TV
  • Chapter 8. Tabloid TV
  • Chapter 9. Televisual Audience
  • Chapter 10. Televisual Economy
  • Chapter 11. Televisual Politics
  • Postscript. Intellectual Culture, Image, and Iconoclasm
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author

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