How to Watch Television, Second Edition / / ed. by Jason Mittell, Ethan Thompson.

• MitwirkendeR: Alsultany, Evelyn,; Aslinger, Ben,; Banks, Miranda J.,; Becker, Ron,; Beltrán, Mary,; Butler, Jeremy G.,; Christian, Aymar Jean,; Click, Melissa A.,; Day, Amber,; De Kosnik, Abigail,; Edgar, Amanda Nell,; Gates, Racquel,; Gray, Jonathan,; Hardy, David Miranda,; Hargraves, Hunter,; Holladay, Holly Willson,; Imre, Anikó,; Jenkins, Henry,; Johnson, Derek,; Jones, Jeffrey P.,; Kearney, Mary Celeste,; Keeler, Amanda,; Klein, Amanda Ann,; Leonard, Suzanne,; Levine, Elana,; Lotz, Amanda D.,; McNutt, Myles,; Mehta, Ritesh,; Miller, Taylor Cole,; Mittell, Jason,; Newman, Michael Z.,; Ouellette, Laurie,; Sandler, Kevin,; Scott, Suzanne,; Stadel, Luke,; Stein, Louisa,; Thompson, Ethan,; Tussey, Ethan,; Warner, Kristen J.,; ansk, Philip,; ersh, Heather,
• HerausgeberIn: Mittell, Jason,; Thompson, Ethan,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: User's Guides to Popular Culture ; 3
• Physical Description: 1 online resource :; 71 hts

A new edition that brings the ways we watch and think about television up to the presentWe all have opinions about the television shows we watch, but television criticism is about much more than simply evaluating the merits of a particular show and deeming it “good” or “bad.” Rather, criticism uses the close examination of a television program to explore that program’s cultural significance, creative strategies, and its place in a broader social context.How to Watch Television, Second Edition brings together forty original essays—more than half of which are new to this edition—from today’s leading scholars on television culture, who write about the programs they care (and think) the most about. Each essay focuses on a single television show, demonstrating one way to read the program and, through it, our media culture. From fashioning blackness in Empire to representation in Orange is the New Black and from the role of the reboot in Gilmore Girls to the function of changing political atmospheres in Roseanne, these essays model how to practice media criticism in accessible language, providing critical insights through analysis—suggesting a way of looking at TV that students and interested viewers might emulate. The contributors discuss a wide range of television programs past and present, covering many formats and genres, spanning fiction and non-fiction, broadcast, streaming, and cable. Addressing shows from TV’s earliest days to contemporary online transformations of the medium, How to Watch Television, Second Edition is designed to engender classroom discussion among television critics of all backgrounds.To access additional essays from the first edition, visit the "links" tab at nyupress.org/9781479898817/how-to-watch-television-second-edition/.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Introduction: An Owner’s Manual for Television -- I TV Form: Aesthetics and Style -- 1 Better Call Saul: The Prestige Spinoff -- 2 Empire: Fashioning Blackness -- 3 House: Narrative Complexity -- 4 Looking: Smartphone Aesthetics -- 5 Mad Men: Visual Style -- 6 Nip/Tuck: Popular Music -- 7 One Life to Live: Soap Opera Storytelling -- 8 The Sopranos: Episodic Storytelling -- II TV Representation: Social Identity and Cultural Politics -- 9 24 Challenging Stereotypes -- 10 Bala Loca: Producing Representations -- 11 Being Mary Jane: Cultural Specificity -- 12 Buckwild: Performing Whiteness -- 13 Glee/House Hunters International: Gay Narratives -- 14 Grey’s Anatomy: Feminism -- 15 Master of None: Negotiated Decoding -- 16 Orange Is the New Black: Intersectional Analysis -- III TV Politics Democracy, Nation, and the Public Interest -- 17 The Amazing Race: Global Othering -- 18 America’s Next Top Model: Neoliberal Labor -- 19 East Los High: Televised Empowerment -- 20 The Eurovision Song Contest: Queer Nationalism -- 21 Fox & Friends: Political Talk -- 22 Full Frontal with Samantha Bee: Feminist Comedy -- 23 The Hunt with John Walsh: True Crime Storytelling -- 24 Parks and Recreation: The Cultural Forum -- IV TV Industry: Industrial Practices and Structures -- 25 The Ernie Kovacs Show: Historicizing Comedy -- 26 Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life: TV Revivals -- 27 I Love Lucy: The Writer- Producer -- 28 Modern Family: Product Placement -- 29 The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills: Franchising Femininity -- 30 Roseanne: Programming Flow -- 31 Tales from the Crypt: Content Regulation -- 32 The Toy Box: Transmedia and Transgenerational Marketing -- V TV Practices: Medium, Technology, and Everyday Life -- 33 Battlestar Galactica: Fans and Ancillary Content -- 34 Everyday Italian: Cultivating Taste -- 35 Gossip Girl: Transmedia Technologies -- 36 High Maintenance and The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl: Indie TV -- 37 Monty Python’s Flying Circus: Layered Comedy -- 38 NFL Broadcasts: Interpretive Communities -- 39 Pardon the Interruption: Sports Debate -- 40 The Walking Dead: Adapting Comics -- Acknowledgments -- About the Contributors -- Index