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Zusatztext "The ultimate question of this varied collection is not whether HBO is TV, but whether television today is the same as it once was: has TV not changed to take account of new forms of leisure, new social and sexual mores, new modes of electronic entertainment and so on? With verve, the authors approach the HBO phenomenon from multiple perspectives to make clear its important role in a new, complex media landscape."--Dana Polan, Professor of Cinema Studies, NYU, and author of The Sopranos"If HBO represents the apogee of post-network programming, the essays collected here represent the new wave in television studies. Cutting through HBO's self-promotional hype, the authors closely examine industrial and economic issues, while also discussing specific programs and audience responses. This extremely informative book is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand the key issues in today's TV industry."--Heather Hendershot, author of Shaking the World for Jesus and editor of Nickelodeon Nation"The editors have carefully assembled an in-depth investigation unlike any before, and are to be saluted for the breadth and depth of this important work. HBO has redefined modern television, and this book, has in its own way, helped to redefine the way we look at HBO."--Brian Cogan, Molloy College Informationen zum Autor Marc Leverette is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at Colorado State University. He is author of Professional Wrestling, the Myth, the Mat, and American Popular Culture and co-editor of Zombie Culture: Autopsies of the Living Dead and Oh My God, They Deconstructed South Park! Those Bastards! Brian L. Ott is Associate Professor of Media Studies at Colorado State University. He is author of The Small Screen: How Television Equips Us to Live in the Information Age. Cara Louise Buckley is Lecturer at Emerson College. Klappentext This collection brings together scholars from fields such as media studies, journalism, popular culture, communication studies, urban studies, political science, visual studies, and women's studies who have examined the phenomenon of HBO in one way or another from within their specific disciplines. Additionally, the collection is international in both focus and contribution with authors from the United States, Great Britain, Scotland, Ireland, Canada, and Australia. Zusammenfassung A collection of essays, which argue that HBO, as part of the leading-edge of television, is at the center of television studies' interests in market positioning, style, content, technology, and political economy. It explores the production process itself and the creation of a brand commodity, along with HBO's place as a technological innovator. Inhaltsverzeichnis It’s Not TV: Watching HBO in the Post-Television Era Edited by Marc Leverette, Brian L. Ott, and Cara Louise Buckley Foreword: It’s Television. It’s HBO Toby Miller If it’s Not TV, Then What? Part I: Industry and Economics The Not TV Industry Marc Leverette 1. Para-Television and Discourses of Distinction: The Culture of Production at HBO Avi Santo 2. And Now No Word from Our Sponsors: How HBO Puts the Risk Back Into Television Tony Kelso 3. Will Yingshuiji Buzz Help HBO Asia? Shawn McIntosh 4. It’s Not TV, It’s HBO’s Original Programming: Producing Quality TV Janet McCabe and Kim Akass Part II: Text and Contexts The Not TV Text Brian L. Ott 5. Carnivàle: TV Drama Without TV Genre David Marc 6. Challenging Sitcom Conventions: From The Larry Sanders Show to The Comeback Lisa Williamson 7. Cocksucker, Motherfucker, Tits Marc Leverette 8. Baltimore on The Wire: The Tragic Moralism David Simon Blake D. Ethridge Part III: Audiences and Identity The Not TV Audience Cara Louise Buckley 9. K Street: Raping HBO or What HBO is All About? Conor McGrath 10. Praise You Like I Should: Cyberfans and Six Feet Under Rhiannon Bury 11. Fashion(able/ing) Selves: Consumption,...
