Caldwell John T Caldwell

Televisuality (eBook, ePUB)

Style, Crisis, and Authority in American Television

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Although the "e;decline"e; 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 "e;loss-leader"e; event-status programming (War and Remembrance) to lower "e;trash"e; and "e;tabloid"e; forms (Pee-Wee's Playhouse and reality TV). Caldwell shows how "e;import-auteurs"e; 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 "e;high theory."e;

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 665
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. August 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978816220
• Artikelnr.: 72431042

Autorenporträt

JOHN T. CALDWELL is a Distinguished Research Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of California–Los Angeles. He is the author of Production Culture: Industrial Reflexivity and Critical Practice in Film and Television (2008), and the director of Freak Street to Goa, Rancho California (por favor) , and Land Hacks , which have been featured in Amsterdam, Paris, and Berlin, and at the Margaret Mead and Sundance Film Festivals. He was awarded the “Outstanding Pedagogy Award” by the Society of Cinema and Media Studies in 2018.  

Inhaltsangabe

Preface           
Part I The Problem of the Image
1          Excessive Style: The Crisis of Network Television
2          Unwanted Houseguests and Altered States: A Short History of
Aesthetic Posturing           
3          Modes of Production: The Televisual Apparatus      
Part II The Aesthetic Economy of Televisuality
4          Boutique: Designer Television/Auteurist Spin Doctoring    
5          Franchiser: Digital Packaging/Industrial-Strength
Semiotics           
6          Loss Leader: Event Status Programming/Exhibitionist
History       
7          Trash TV: Thrift-Shop Video/More Is More 
8          Tabloid TV: Styled Live/Ontological Stripmall        
Part III Cultural Aspects of Televisuality
9          Televisual Audience: Interactive Pizza         
10        Televisual Economy: Recessionary Aesthetics         
11        Televisual Politics: Negotiating Race in the L.A. Rebellion 
Postscript: Intellectual Culture, Image, and Iconoclasm       
Acknowledgments
Notes  
Bibliography  
Index