| Description |
xi, 294 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Series |
Studies in film and video ; v. 2 |
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Studies in film and video ; v. 2
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| Contents |
Pt. I. The Establishment of American Television: Industrial Organization and Social Meaning in the 1950s. 1. The Rise of the Telefilm and the Network's Hegemony Over the Motion Picture Industry / Robert Vianello. 2. Failed Opportunities: The Integration of the US Motion Picture and Television Industries / Douglas Gomery. 3. The Meaning of Memory: Family, Class, and Ethnicity in Early Network Television / George Lipsitz -- Pt. II. Cultural Theory and Network Television: Mapping Economy and Subjectivity. 4. The Political Economy of the Television (Super) Text / Nick Browne. 5. Viewing Television: The Metapsychology of Endless Consumption / Beverle Houston. 6. TV Through the Looking Glass / Thomas Elsaesser -- Pt. III. Television Formats and the Inscription of Gender. 7. Speculations on the Relationship Between Soap Opera and Melodrama / Christine Gledhill. 8. The Return of the Unrepressed: Male Desire, Gender, and Genre / Robert Deming |
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9. On Commuting Between Television Fiction and Real Life / Elihu Katz, Tamar Liebes and Lili Berko -- Pt. IV. Video Transformations: Gaming, Pictorialization, Surveillance. 10. Performing Style: Industrial Strength Semiotics and the Basic Televisual Apparatus / John Caldwell. 11. Surveying the Surveilled: Video, Space and Subjectivity / Lili Berko. 12. Playing With Power on Saturday Morning Television and on Home Video Games / Marsha Kinder |
| Summary |
. This volume should appeal to scholars, students, and laypeople interested in television, communications, critical theory, and cultural studies. Libraries at research and teaching institutions will find it indispensable |
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The authors are leaders in the field, and they address several key issues: the formative period in American television history; the relation between television's political economy and its cultural forms; gender and melodrama; and new technologies such as video games and camcorders. This breadth of coverage brings basic and defining scholarship to the field of television studies |
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This book brings together the most important writing on television published in Quarterly Review of Film and Video, from classic essays by Nick Browne and Beverle Houston to the latest cutting-edge historical and critical research. It considers television's economics, technologies, forms, and audiences from a cultural perspective that links history, theory, and criticism |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Television broadcasting -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Television broadcasting -- United States -- History.
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Television broadcasting -- United States.
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Television -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Television -- United States -- Psychological aspects.
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| Author |
Browne, Nick, editor
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| LC no. |
99459986 |
| ISBN |
3718605635 |
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