Televisuality : : Style, Crisis, and Authority in American Television / / John T Caldwell.

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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Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Communications, Media, and Culture Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (696 p.) :; 120 b-w images
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Part I. The Problem of the Image
  • Chapter 1. Excessive Style
  • Chapter 2. Unwanted Houseguests and Altered States
  • Chapter 3. Modes of Production
  • Part II. The Aesthetic Economy of Televisuality
  • Chapter 4. Boutique
  • Chapter 5. Franchiser
  • Chapter 6. Loss Leader
  • Chapter 7. Trash TV
  • Chapter 8. Tabloid TV
  • Part III. Cultural Aspects of Televisuality
  • 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