Television : the critical view /

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Other Authors / Creators:Newcomb, Horace.
Format: Book
Language:English
Edition:Third edition.
Imprint: New York : Oxford University Press, 1982.
Subjects:
Television broadcasting > United States.
Television broadcasting.
United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface to the Seventh Edition
  • Preface to the First Edition
  • "Television and the Present Climate of Criticism"
  • Part 1. History
  • "'Too Many Kids and Old Ladies': Quality Demographics and 1960s U.S. Television"
  • "Negotiating Civil Rights in Prime Time: A Production and Reception History of CBS's East Side/West Side"
  • "Innovating Women's Television in Local and National Networks: Ruth Lyons and Arlene Francis"
  • "Ethnic Masculinity and Early Television's Vaudeo Star"
  • "Identity, Power, and Local Television: African Americas, Organized Labor, and UHF-TV in Chicago, 1962-1968"
  • Part 2. The Production Context
  • "Toward a Paradigm for Media Production Research: Behind the Scenes at General Hospital"
  • "Translating Trek: Rewriting an American Icon in a Francophone Context"
  • "Double Vision: Large-Screen Video Display and Live Sports Spectacle"
  • "Erasing Blackness: The Media Construction of 'Race' in Mi Familia, the First Puerto Rican Situation Comedy with a Black Family"
  • "Textual (Im)Possibilities in the U.S. Post-Network Era: Negotiating Production and Promotion Processes on Lifetime's Any Day Now"
  • Part 3. The Programming Context
  • "Ah, Yes, I Remember It Well': Memory and Queer Culture in Will and Grace"
  • "Cartoon Realism: Genre Mixing and the Cultural Life of The Simpsons"
  • "The West Wing's Prime-Time Presidentiality: Mimesis and Catharsis in a Postmodern Romance"
  • "Sex and the City and Consumer Culture: Remediating Postfeminist Drama"
  • "Girls Rule! Gender, Feminism, and Nickelodeon"
  • "Soap Opera in China: The Transnational Politics of Visuality, Sexuality, and Masculinity"
  • "McTV: Understanding the Global Popularity of Television Formats"
  • "Sounds Real: Music and Documentary"
  • "From Insiders to Outsiders: The Advent of New Political Television"
  • "Television Melodrama"
  • Part 4. Audiences, Viewers, Users
  • "Components of a Viewing Culture"
  • "Big Brother: The Real Audience"
  • "Telenovela Reception in Rural Brazil: Gendered Readings and Sexual Mores"
  • "Sex Appeal and Cultural Liberty: A Feminist Inquiry into MTV India"
  • "To Have and to Hold: The Video Collector's Relationship with an Ethereal Medium"
  • Part 5. Considering Television
  • "'This Is Not Al Dente': The Sopranos and the New Meaning of 'Television'"
  • "The Family Racket: AOL Time Warner, HBO, The Sopranos, and the Construction of a Quality Brand"
  • "Television as Transmodern Teaching"
  • "'Democracy as Defeat': The Impotence of Arguments for Public Service Broadcasting"
  • "A Response to Elizabeth Jacka's 'Democracy as Defeat'"
  • "Entertainment Wars: Television Culture After 9/11"
  • "Regulation, Media Literacy, and Media Civics"
  • About the Authors

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