Televisuality : style, crisis, and authority in American television /
The decline of network television in the face of cable was a crisis in television history, but it also spawned new production initiatives to reassert network authority. John T. Caldwell's classic, Televisuality, demonstrates the cultural logic of stylistic exhibitionism in everything from prest...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New Brunswick, New Jersey :
Rutgers University Press,
[2020].
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| Edition: | Paperback edition. |
| Series: | Rutgers University Press classics.
Communications, media, and culture. |
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| Summary: | The decline of network television in the face of cable was a crisis in television history, but it also spawned new production initiatives to reassert network authority. John T. Caldwell's classic, Televisuality, demonstrates the cultural logic of stylistic exhibitionism in everything from prestige series and loss-leader event-status programming (Northern Exposure and War and Remembrance) to lower trash and tabloid forms (Pee-Wee's Playhouse and reality television) as "import-auteurs" like Oliver Stone and David Lynch were stylized for prime time, and videographics packaged and tamed crisis news coverage. Drawing on production experience and critical and cultural analysis, Televisuality is a powerful call for desegregation of theory and practice in media scholarship and an end to the willful blindness of high theory. |
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| Physical Description: | xvi, 647 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781978816213 1978816219 9781978816039 1978816030 |