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1 online resource (297 pages) |
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Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies |
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Routledge research in cultural and media studies.
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| Contents |
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part A: Icons in the Museum; 1 Collecting Pictures; 2 Collecting Language; Part B: Kaleidoscopic Spectacles; 3 Pictorial Historiography; 4 The Insignia of the Spectacle; 5 Pictorial Genres; 6 The Narrative of the News Spectacle; 7 Iconic Lecterns; 8 The Historicity of the Documentary's Imagery; Part C: Hyperrealism; 9 Pictorial Supremacy; 10 The Icon of Joe Friday: The Moral in the Dragnet; 11 The Icon of Lucy: Queen of Television Comedy; 12 The Icon of Edward R. Murrow: Master of "the Control Room of Studio 41." |
| Summary |
Despite the work that has been done on the power of visual communication in general, and about the social influence of television in particular, television's relationship with reality is still something of a black box. Even today, the convention that the screen functions as a window on reality structures much of the production and reception of televisual narratives. But as reality ought to become history at one point, what are we to do with such windows on the past? Developing and applying a highly innovative approach to the modern picture, this monograph sets out to expose the historicity of icons, to reframe the history of the screen and to dissect the visual core of a medium that is still so poorly understood. Dismantling the aura of apparently timeless icons and past spectacles with their seductive power to attract the eye, this book offers new ways of seeing the mechanisms at work in our modern pictorial culture |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Motion pictures.
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Television.
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Arts.
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Motion pictures -- Semiotics.
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Television -- Semiotics.
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Television
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Motion Pictures
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television (telecommunication system)
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Arts
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Motion pictures
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Motion pictures -- Semiotics
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Television
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Television -- Semiotics
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203937846 |
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0203937848 |
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1281101877 |
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9781281101877 |
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