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Author Hargraves, Hunter, 1983- author.

Title Uncomfortable television / Hunter Hargraves
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 246 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction: Television scripts -- The irritated spectator : affective representation in (post)millennial comedy -- The addicted spectator : TV junkies in need of an intervention -- The aborted spectator : affective economies of perversion in televisual remix -- The spectator plagued by white guilt : on the appropriative intermediality of quality TV -- The woke spectator : misrecognizing discomfort in the era of "peak TV"
Summary "Uncomfortable Television examines the affects of late capitalism through its most dominant media form, television. Hunter Hargraves examines postmillennial American television and charts the reorganization of its affective structures and the aesthetic, formal, industrial, technological, and generic shifts behind these changes. At its core, Uncomfortable Television makes a historical claim: that American television in the early-21st Century produces a pleasurable discomfort within its spectators that bears witness to the sedimentation of neoliberal culture. In marrying changes in TV form, genre, technology, and criticism to key affects of discomfort, television helped its audiences embrace discomfort within the rhythms and social structures of late capitalism. Turning discomfort into pleasure thus became an instrumental strategy of the media industries to mold the viewing public into one concerned with individual freedom and economic flexibility. Turning to a wide variety of popular and critically acclaimed television texts that epitomize the changes to postmillennial American television, Uncomfortable Television reads these texts as key constellations in a national structure of feeling defined in terms of rerouting discomfort into pleasure."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record
Subject Television -- United States -- History -- 21st century
Television broadcasting -- Social aspects -- United States
Television programs -- United States -- Influence
Television viewers -- United States.
PERFORMING ARTS / Television / History & Criticism.
Television
Television broadcasting -- Social aspects
Television programs -- Influence
Television viewers
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2022035136
ISBN 1478024194
9781478024194