TELEVISUALITY : style, crisis, and authority in american television.

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. Televis...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Caldwell, John Thornton, 1954-
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] RUTGERS University Press, 2020.
Series:Communications, Media, and Culture Ser.
Online Access:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2318076
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1. Excessive Style
  • Chapter 2. Unwanted Houseguests and Altered States
  • Chapter 3. Modes of Production
  • Chapter 4. Boutique
  • Chapter 5. Franchiser
  • Chapter 6. Loss Leader
  • Chapter 7. Trash TV
  • Chapter 8. Tabloid TV
  • Chapter 9. Televisual Audience
  • Chapter 10. Televisual Economy
  • Chapter 11. Televisual Politics
  • Postscript. Intellectual Culture, Image, and Iconoclasm
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author