Seeing It on Television: Televisuality in the Contemporary US ‘High-End` Series, Dominic Lees, Max Sexton

Автор: Caldwell John T.
Название: Televisuality: Style, Crisis, and Authority in American Television
ISBN: 1978816030 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781978816039
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: 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. Television in the 1980s hyped an extensive array of exhibitionist practices to raise the prime-time marquee above the multi-channel flow. Televisuality demonstrates the cultural logic of stylistic exhibitionism in everything from prestige series (Northern Exposure) and "loss-leader" event-status programming (War and Remembrance) to lower "trash" and "tabloid" forms (Pee-Wee's Playhouse and reality TV). Caldwell shows how "import-auteurs" like Oliver Stone and David Lynch were stylized for prime time as videographics packaged and tamed crisis news coverage. By drawing on production experience and critical and cultural analysis, and by tying technologies to aesthetics and ideology, Televisuality is a powerful call for desegregation of theory and practice in media scholarship and an end to the willful blindness of "high theory."

Автор: John T. Caldwell
Название: Televisuality: Style, Crisis, and Authority in American Television
ISBN: 1978816219 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781978816213
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Цена: 125400.00 T
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Описание: 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. Television in the 1980s hyped an extensive array of exhibitionist practices to raise the prime-time marquee above the multi-channel flow. Televisuality demonstrates the cultural logic of stylistic exhibitionism in everything from prestige series (Northern Exposure) and "loss-leader" event-status programming (War and Remembrance) to lower "trash" and "tabloid" forms (Pee-Wee's Playhouse and reality TV). Caldwell shows how "import-auteurs" like Oliver Stone and David Lynch were stylized for prime time as videographics packaged and tamed crisis news coverage. By drawing on production experience and critical and cultural analysis, and by tying technologies to aesthetics and ideology, Televisuality is a powerful call for desegregation of theory and practice in media scholarship and an end to the willful blindness of "high theory."

Автор: Marcia Landy
Название: Imitations of Life: Reader on Film and Television Melodrama (Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series)
ISBN: 0814320651 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780814320655
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Marcia Landy has gathered thirty-seven important essays on film and melodrama that have appeared in books and journals over the last two decades. In her introduction to the book, Landy explores the recent interest in the genre in relation to theoretical work in psychoanalysis and semiotics, setting the stage for the essays that follow.The book`s seven sections examine the history of melodrama, its emphasis on emotional excess, its manicheanism, and its dependence on non-verbal strategies to communicate. Essays focus on the family melodramas of the 1950s, the role of Hollywood directors and stars in the development of the genre, and melodrama in the silent films and on television. The book concludes with an exploration of the use of melodrama in European and Latin American cinema, both silent and sound. Imitations of Life thus provides a variety of perspectives-chronological, theoretical, and international-on the genre while investigating its cultural, social, and political significance.

Название: Contemporary television series
ISBN: 0748619011 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780748619016
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: An engaging and provocative study of the contemporary prime-time `quality` serial television format, this book gives a timely account of prominent programmes and explores their influential position within the television industry.