TY  - GEN
T1  - TELEVISUALITY  : style, crisis, and authority in american television.
T2  - Communications, Media, and Culture Ser.
A1  - Caldwell, John Thornton, 1954-
LA  - English
PP  - Place of publication not identified
PB  - RUTGERS University Press
YR  - 2020
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1179048947
AB  - 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."
CN  - PN1992.6
SN  - 9781978816220
SN  - 1978816227
SN  - 9781978816244
SN  - 1978816243
SN  - 1978816219
SN  - 9781978816213
KW  - Television broadcasting : Social aspects : United States.
KW  - Television broadcasting : United States : History.
KW  - Television programs : United States : History and criticism.
KW  - Visual communication.
KW  - Télévision : Aspect social : États-Unis.
KW  - Télévision : États-Unis : Histoire.
KW  - Émissions télévisées : États-Unis : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Communication visuelle.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
KW  - Television broadcasting
KW  - Television broadcasting : Social aspects
KW  - Television programs
KW  - Visual communication
KW  - United States
KW  - tv, television, network television, cable programming, television history, exhibitionist practices, prime-time, prestige series, Northern Exposure, War and Remembrance, Pee-Wee's Playhouse, reality tv, import-auteurs, Oliver Stone, David Lynch, news coverage, media scholarship, tabloid tv.
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
KW  - History
ER  -