The Survival of Soap Opera: Transformations for a New Media Era, Sam Ford, Abigail De Kosnik, C. Lee Harrington

Автор: Wendy A. Burns-Ardolino
Название: TV Female Foursomes and Their Fans: Featuring The Golden Girls, Designing Women, Living Single, Sex and the City, Girlfriends, Cashmere Mafia and Hot in Cleveland
ISBN: 0786458526 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780786458523
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: The Golden Girls, Designing Women, Living Single, Sex and the City, Girlfriends and Hot in Cleveland stand out as some of America`s favorite television series. Connecting fan commentary with analysis by television scholars, this collection of essays explores the development of these series, with a focus on the role of fan cultures in "reproducing" these popular American shows.

Автор: Morreale Joanne
Название: The Donna Reed Show
ISBN: 081433508X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780814335086
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Описание: At a time when television offered limited opportunities for women, Donna Reed was an Oscar-winning Hollywood actress who became both producer (though largely uncredited) and star of her own television show. Distinct from the patriarchal family sitcoms of the era, <em>The Donna Reed Show’s</em> storylines focused on the mother instead of the father, and its production brought a cinematic aesthetic to television situation comedy. In <em>The Donna Reed Show</em>, author Joanne Morreale illustrates how the program pushed the boundaries of the domestic sitcom at a time when the genre was evolving and also reflected the subtle shifts and undercurrents of unrest in the larger social and political culture. <br><br> Morreale begins by locating Donna Reed in relation to her predecessors Gertrude Berg and Lucille Ball, both of whom were strong female presences in front of and behind the camera. She also explores the telefilm aesthetics of <em>The Donna Reed Show</em> and argues that the series is a prime example of the emergent synergy between Hollywood and the television industry in the late fifties. In addition, Morreale argues that the Donna Stone character’s femininity acts as a kind of masquerade, as well as provides a proto-feminist model for housewives. She also examines the show’s representation of teen culture and its role in launching the singing careers of its two teenaged stars. Finally, Morreale considers the legacy of <em>The Donna Reed Show</em> in the representation of its values in later sitcoms and its dialogue with contemporary television texts. <br><br> Morreale illustrates the interplay of gender, industry, and culture at work in the history of this classic TV series. Fans of the show, as well as students and teachers of television history, will enjoy this close look at <em>The Donna Reed Show</em>.

Автор: Desjardins Mary R.
Название: Father Knows Best
ISBN: 0814339476 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780814339473
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Описание: Although the iconic television series Father Knows Best (CBS 1954–55; NBC 1955–58; CBS 1958–60) has enjoyed a long history in rerun syndication and an enduring fan base, it is often remembered as cultural shorthand for 1950s-era conformism and authoritarianism. In this study of Father Knows Best, author Mary R. Desjardins examines the program, its popularity, and its critical position within historical, industrial, and generic contexts to challenge oversimplified assumptions about the show’s use of comedy and melodrama in exploring the place of family in mid-twentieth century American society. Desjardins begins by looking at Father Knows Best within media and production contexts, including its origin on radio, its place in the history of Screen Gems telefilm production, and its roots in the backgrounds and creative philosophies of co-producer Eugene Rodney and star-producer Robert Young. She goes on to examine the social contexts for the creation and reception of the series, especially in the era’s emphasis on family togetherness, shared parenting by both father and mother, and generational stages of the life cycle. Against this background, Desjardins also discusses several Father Knows Best episodes in-depth to consider their treatment of conflicts over appropriate gender roles for women. She concludes by exploring how the series’ cast participated in reevaluations of the Anderson family’s meaning in relation to “real families” of the fifties, through television specials, talk show appearances, magazine and book interviews, and documentaries.Blending melodrama and comedy, naturalistic acting, and stylized cinematic visuals, Father Knows Best dramatized ideological tensions in the most typical situations facing the American family. Scholars of mid-century American popular culture and film history as well as fans of the show will appreciate Desjardin’s measured analysis.

Автор: Salvato Nick
Название: Knots Landing
ISBN: 0814340334 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780814340332
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Описание: Airing on CBS for fourteen seasons (1979-93), Knots Landing was a spinoff of the popular drama Dallas, but ultimately ran longer and took a very different tone on domestic, social, and economic issues than its predecssor. In the first full-length scholarly study of Knots Landing, Nick Salvato situates the series in its economic and industrial contexts, addresses its surprisingly progressive relationship to the American politics of its period, offers close formal interpretations of noteworthy episodes, and unpacks the pleasures of the program's sensuous surfaces.While it has been largely overlooked in studies of 1980s television, Knots Landing nonetheless beat more masculine fare like Hill Street Blues and L.A. Law in the ratings, introduced a novel focus on middle-class lives in melodrama, and launched or revived the careers of its major stars. In this study Salvato investigates the series' place in widespread serialization of American primetime television in the early 1980s and the end of network dominance in the early 1990s, along with its unique relationship to Reaganism and glamour, on the one hand, and everydayness and suburbanization, on the other. Salvato also looks at the series in relation to key concepts such as memory, theatricality, identification, ""quality"" TV, and stardom.Fans of the series as well as readers interested in popular culture, television history, representations of gender, and constructions of celebrity will find much to enjoy in this volume.

Автор: Carpentier Nico
Название: Audience Transformations
ISBN: 0415827361 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415827362
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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The concept of the audience is changing. In the twenty-first century there are novel configurations of user practices and technological capabilities that are altering the way we understand and trust media organizations and representations, how we participate in society, and how we construct our social relations. This book embeds these transformations in a societal, cultural, technological, ideological, economic and historical context, avoiding a naive privileging of technology as the main societal driving force, but also avoiding the media-centric reduction of society to the audiences that are situated within. Audience Transformations provides a platform for a nuanced and careful analysis of the main changes in European communicational practices, and their social, cultural and technological affordances.

Автор: Erica Baffelli, Ian Reader
Название: Dynamism and the Ageing of a Japanese `New` Religion: Transformations and the Founder
ISBN: 1350086517 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350086517
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: This book examines the trajectory and development of the Japanese religious movement Agonshu and its charismatic founder Kiriyama Seiyu. Based on field research spanning 30 years, it examines Agonshu from when it first captured attention in the 1980s with its spectacular rituals and use of media technologies, through its period of stagnation to its response to the death of its founder in 2016. The authors discuss the significance of charismatic leadership, the 'democratisation' of practice and the demands made by movements such as Agonshu on members, while examining how the movement became increasingly focused on revisionist nationalism and issues of Japanese identity. In examining the dilemma that religions commonly face on the deaths of charismatic founders, Erica Baffelli and Ian Reader look at Agonshu’s response to Kiriyama's death, looking at how and why it has transformed a human founder into a figure of worship. By examining Agonshu in the wider context, the authors critically examine the concept of ‘new religions’. They draw attention to the importance of understanding the trajectories of 'new' religions and how they can become ‘old’ even within their first generation.

Автор: LaVigne Carlen
Название: Post-Apocalyptic Patriarchy: American Television and Gendered Visions of Survival
ISBN: 0786499060 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780786499069
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Questions about post-apocalyptic television abound. Whose voices are represented? What do they want? What tomorrows are they most afraid of-and what does this tell us about the world we live in today? This book examines these issues.

Автор: Mike Dicks
Название: Connected Content: A mulit-platform survival guide for media producers
ISBN: 1408132540 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781408132548
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: The last decade in the media has seen a proliferation of new media platforms: games, the web, mobiles and social networks - each demanding more and more high quality content to feed its audiences. Established media platforms - television and film - can't now pass a new content proposal without a cross platform media plan. So if you're a TV Producer or Filmmaker, what do you need to do to start thinking digitally and develop a cross platform content idea?This book will be your guide to the ideas, the processes, the audiences and the buyers, the mistakes and the triumphs of the new media landscape. It will tell the stories of some of the pioneers with examples and case studies from the world of broadcasting, the web, games and mobile, and across genres of entertainment, drama, documentary and education. It will hold your hand through the forest of digital jargon and give you insight into thinking like a tech geek, so you can start to create, sell and profit from true, multi-platform content. A must-have book for the creative media industry.

Автор: Marilyn J. Matelski
Название: The Soap Opera Evolution: America`s Enduring Romance with Daytime Drama
ISBN: 0786472812 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780786472819
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: The first daytime dramas began as early as 1930, with Painted Dreams. Programmers soon discovered that housewives often controlled the purse strings, and soaps become an advertiser's gold mine. They now generate more than $900 million in network revenues annually. Around 50 million people (reportedly including congressmen and rock stars as well as two-thirds of all American television-watching women) tune in each weekday afternoon for a dosage of love, loss and libido via the soaps. This scholarly study examines the soap phenomenon from a sociological point of view. Included in the analysis is classic research by Rudolf Arnheim, Herta Hartzog and Helen Kaufman as well as contemporary studies and previously unpublished research. The evolution of popular plotlines and characters, as assessment of reality in today's plots, which people watch soaps and why, specific plotlines for the 13 soaps presently aired, 40+ family trees illustrating program changes, the future of soaps--all are covered.

Автор: Roos Henrietta
Название: Soap Opera Super Couples: The Great Romances of Daytime Drama
ISBN: 1476662177 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476662176
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: A television genre best known for romantic storytelling, daytime soap operas have for decades spun tales of couples embroiled in passion, lust and adventure. Yet it was not until the early 1980s that star-crossed lovers became standard and the term ""super couple"" was coined by the media, marking a new era of experimentation and growth in daytime soaps. This book documents the phenomenon, tracing its history, legacy and impact on the soap opera industry and on popular culture at large.

Автор: Carpentier Nico, Schroder Kim Christian, Hallett Lawrie
Название: Audience Transformations: Shifting Audience Positions in Late Modernity
ISBN: 113810096X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138100961
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Цена: 43890.00 T
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The concept of the audience is changing. In the twenty-first century there are novel configurations of user practices and technological capabilities that are altering the way we understand and trust media organizations and representations, how we participate in society, and how we construct our social relations. This book embeds these transformations in a societal, cultural, technological, ideological, economic and historical context, avoiding a naive privileging of technology as the main societal driving force, but also avoiding the media-centric reduction of society to the audiences that are situated within. Audience Transformations provides a platform for a nuanced and careful analysis of the main changes in European communicational practices, and their social, cultural and technological affordances.

Автор: Helen Thornham, Simon Popple
Название: Content Cultures: Transformations of User Generated Content in Public Service Broadcasting
ISBN: 1780765134 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781780765136
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: When user-generated content (UGC) emerged as a central facet of the BBC`s digital presence, it seemed to engage directly with the public service remit in a modern and multiplatform way. Content Cultures examines this key moment of digital affluence and creativity as the BBC embraced user-generated content.