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Informationen zum Autor Janet Wasko is Professor in the School of Communication and Journalism at the University of Oregon. Her many books include Hollywood in the Information Age: Beyond the Silver Screen (1994), Consuming Audiences? Production and Reception in Media Research (1999), Understanding Disney: The Manufacture of Fantasy (2001), and How Hollywood Works (2003). Klappentext A Companion to Television is a magisterial collection of original essays that chart the history of television from its inception to the present day. Over 30 leading scholars across the humanities and social sciences look at television scholarship as it responded to technological, institutional, and aesthetic changes around the world. The essays cover a myriad of topics and theories that have led to television's current incarnation, and predict its likely future. From technology and aesthetics, television's relationship to the state, televisual commerce, texts, representation, genre, internationalism, and audience reception and effects, A Companion to Television is an invaluable reference for understanding the significance of television in the modern and postmodern world. Zusammenfassung A collection of 31 essays that charter the field of television studies over the years. It explores a range of topics and theories that have led to television's incarnation! and predict its likely future. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction (Janet Wasko! University of Oregon). PART I: Theoretical Overviews. 1. The Development of Television Studies (Horace Newcomb! University of Georgia). 2. Critical Perspectives on Television from the Frankfurt School through Postmodernism (Doug Kellner! University of California at Los Angeles). PART II: Television/History. 3. Television and History (Paddy Scannell! University of Westminster). 4. Our TV Heritage: Television! the Archive and the Reasons for Preservation (Lynn Spigel! Northwestern University). PART III: Television/Aesthetics & Production. 5. Television as a Moving Aesthetic: In Search of the Ultimate Aesthetic - The Self (Julianne H. Newton! University of Oregon). 6. Locating the Televisual in Golden Age Television (Caren Deming! University of Arizona). 7. Television Production: Who Makes American TV? (Jane M. Shattuc! Emerson College). PART IV: Television/The State and Policy. 8. Who Rules TV? States! Markets and the Public Interest (Sylvia Harvey! University of Lincoln). 9. Public Broadcasting and Democratic Culture: Consumers! Citizens and Communards (Graham Murdock! University of Loughborough). 10. Culture! Services! Knowledge: Television between Policy Regimes (Stuart Cunningham! Queensland University of Technology). PART V: Television/Commerce. 11. Television Advertising as Textual and Economic Systems (Matthew P. McAllister! Pennsylvania State University). 12. Watching Television: A Political Economic Approach (Eileen R. Meehan! Louisiana State University). 13. Keeping 'Abreast' of MTV and Viacom: The Growing Power of a Media Conglomerate (Jack Banks! Hartford University). 14. The Trade in Television News (Andrew Calabrese! University of Colorado). PART VI: Television/Programming! Content and Genre. 15. Configurations of the New Television Landscape (Albert Moran! Griffith University). 16. The Study of Soap Opera (Christine Geraghty! University of Glasgow). 17. The Shifting Terrain of American Talk Shows (Jane M. Shattuc! Emerson College). 18. Television and Sports (Michael Real! Royal Roads University). 19. "Where the Past Comes Alive": Television! History and Collective Memory (Gary R. Edgerton! Old Dominion University). 20. "How will you make it on your own?": Television and Feminism Since 1970 (Bonnie J. Dow! University of Georgia). 21. Television and Race (Sasha Torres! University of Western Ontario). PART VII: Television/The Public and Audiences. ...
