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Part of
Praeger's Media and Society Series, this contributed volume is the only collection of essays on television authorship. It includes work of some of the most prominent scholars in television studies. Rather than assigning one author to individual television texts, the contributors probe the relationship between the various authors at work within the institutional, cultural, and economic settings that characterize the television industry. This book analyzes and defines the unique methods of television authorship and suggests numerous candidates for authorial accountability allowing the medium to enter the realm of contemporary criticism.
The first part of the volume provides a case study in four chapters on authorship issues surrounding
Frank's Place, the short lived but compelling situation comedy. This is followed by three chapters focusing on issues of authorship in international television. The book then probes the studio's role as author, including essays on Warner Brothers, Desilu, and Screen Gems. Finally the contributors examine individual TV authors and cover such topics as point of view in music video, television production as collective action, and unconventional television.
Table des matières
Introduction
Authorship Case Study: Hugh WilsonTelevision Authors: The Case of Hugh Wilson by Richard Campbell and Jimmie L. Reeves
Interpreting Television: A Closer Look at the Cinematic Codes in Frank's Place by Bernard Timberg and David Barker
The Sense of Place in Frank's Place by Horace M. Newcomb
Black Music and Television: A Critical Look at Frank's Place by Joe Moorehouse
International Authorship StudiesTelevision Authorship in France: Le Réalisateur by Susan Boyd-Bowman
Authorship Conflict in The Prisoner by Tony Williams
Program Production for Export and the Domestic Market: British Television Film Series of the 1960s by Jonathan David Tankel
The Studio As AuteurNegotiating the Television Text: The Transformation of Warner Bros. Presents by Christopher Anderson
Desilu, I Love Lucy, and the Rise of Network TV by Thomas Schatz
The Screen Gems Division of Columbia Pictures: Twenty-Five Years of Prime-Time Storytelling by David Marc
Individual Authorship StudiesRewriting Culture: A Dialogic View of Television Authorship by Jimmie L. Reeves
Television Production as Collective Action by Cathy A. Sandeen and Ronald J. Compesi
Authorship and Point-of-View Issues in Music Video by Gary Burns
The Comic and Artistic Vision of Lorne Michaels and the Production of Unconventional Television by George M. Plasketes
Selected Bibliography
Index
A propos de l'auteur
ROBERT J. THOMPSON is an Associate Professor at the State University of New York at Cortland, the Director of the Radio-TV-Film N.H.S.I summer program at Northwestern University, and an occasional visiting Professor at Cornell University. In addition to the present volume, he is the co-editor of two anthologies of essays entitled Television Studies: Textual Analysis (Praeger) and Making Television: Authorship and the Production Process (Praeger).
