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Informationen zum Autor JOHN T. CALDWELL is a Distinguished Research Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of California–Los Angeles. He is the author of Production Culture: Industrial Reflexivity and Critical Practice in Film and Television (2008), and the director of Freak Street to Goa, Rancho California (por favor) , and Land Hacks , which have been featured in Amsterdam, Paris, and Berlin, and at the Margaret Mead and Sundance Film Festivals. He was awarded the “Outstanding Pedagogy Award” by the Society of Cinema and Media Studies in 2018. Klappentext Although the "decline" of network television in the face of cable was a crisis in television history, John Caldwell finds that it spawned new production initiatives to reassert network authority. Caldwell's classic volume, now available as a handsome volume in the Rutgers University Press Classics imprint, calls for desegregation of theory and practice in media scholarship. Zusammenfassung Although the "decline" of network television in the face of cable was a crisis in television history, John Caldwell finds that it spawned new production initiatives to reassert network authority. Caldwell's classic volume, now available as a handsome volume in the Rutgers University Press Classics imprint, calls for desegregation of theory and practice in media scholarship. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Part I The Problem of the Image 1 Excessive Style: The Crisis of Network Television 2 Unwanted Houseguests and Altered States: A Short History of Aesthetic Posturing 3 Modes of Production: The Televisual Apparatus Part II The Aesthetic Economy of Televisuality 4 Boutique: Designer Television/Auteurist Spin Doctoring 5 Franchiser: Digital Packaging/Industrial-Strength Semiotics 6 Loss Leader: Event Status Programming/Exhibitionist History 7 Trash TV: Thrift-Shop Video/More Is More 8 Tabloid TV: Styled Live/Ontological Stripmall Part III Cultural Aspects of Televisuality 9 Televisual Audience: Interactive Pizza 10 Televisual Economy: Recessionary Aesthetics 11 Televisual Politics: Negotiating Race in the L.A. Rebellion Postscript: Intellectual Culture, Image, and Iconoclasm Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index ...
