ISBN:
9781351721899
,
9781315181295
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 407 Seiten)
,
Illustrationen, Diagramme
Edition:
Fifth edition
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Butler, Jeremy G., 1954 - Television
DDC:
302.23/45
Keywords:
Television Psychological aspects
;
Television Semiotics
;
Television broadcasting
;
Television criticism
;
Fernsehen
;
Semiotik
Abstract:
For over two decades, Television has served as the foremost guide to television studies, offering readers an in-depth understanding of how television programs and commercials are made and how they function as producers of meaning. Author Jeremy G. Butler shows the ways in which camera style, lighting, set design, editing, and sound combine to produce meanings that viewers take away from their television experience. Highlights of the fifth edition include: An entirely new chapter by Amanda D. Lotz on television in the contemporary digital media environment. Discussions integrated throughout on the latest developments in screen culture during the on-demand era--including the impact of binge-watching and the proliferation of screens (smartphones, tablets, computer monitors, etc.). Updates on the effects of new digital technologies on TV style.
Abstract:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I Television Structures and Systems -- 1 An Introduction to Television Structures and Systems: Ebb and Flow in the Network Era -- Televisionâs Not-So-Distant Past: The Network Era -- Polysemy, Heterogeneity, Contradiction -- Interruption and Sequence -- Segmentation -- Summary -- Further Readings -- 2 Television in the Contemporary Media Environment -- Internet-Distributed Television: Digital Endemic and Legacy Media -- But I Donât Have a TV -- We Can All Make Television -- Summary -- Further Readings -- 3 Narrative Structure: Television Stories -- The Theatrical Film -- The Television Series -- The Television Serial -- Transmedia Storytelling and Binge-Watching -- Summary -- Further Readings -- 4 Building Narrative: Character, Actor, Star -- Building Characters -- A Typology of Character Signs -- Building Performances -- A Typology of Performance Signs -- Strategies of Performance -- The Star System? -- Summary -- Further Readings -- 5 Beyond and Beside Narrative Structure -- Televisionâs Reality -- Televisionâs Reality: Forms and Modes -- Televisionâs Reality: Genres -- Summary -- Further Readings -- 6 The Television Commercial -- U.S. Linear-TVâs Economic Structure -- The Polysemy of Commodities -- The Persuasive Style of Commercials -- Summary: âCapitalism in Actionâ -- Further Readings -- Part II Television Style: Image and Sound -- 7 An Introduction to Television Style: Modes of Production -- Single-Camera Mode of Production -- Multiple-Camera Mode of Production -- Hybrid Modes of Production -- Summary -- Further Readings -- 8 Style and Setting: Mise-en-Scene -- Set Design -- Costume Design -- Lighting Design -- Actor Movement -- Summary -- Further Readings -- 9 Style and the Camera: Videography and Cinematography -- Basic Optics: The Camera Lens
Abstract:
Image Definition and Resolution -- Color and Black-and-White -- Framing -- Aspect Ratio -- In-Camera Visual Effects -- Summary -- Further Readings -- 10 Style and Editing -- The Single-Camera Mode of Production -- The Multiple-Camera Mode of Production -- Continuity Editing and Hybrid Modes of Production -- Summary -- Further Readings -- 11 Style and Sound -- Types of Television Sound -- Audioâs Mode of Production -- Purposes of Sound on Television -- Acoustic Properties and Sound Technology -- Space, Time, and Narrative -- Summary -- Further Readings -- Part III Television Studies -- 12 An Introduction to Television Studies -- Critical Research and Television -- Further Readings -- 13 Textual Analysis -- Television Authorship -- Style and Stylistics -- Genre Study -- Semiotics -- Summary -- Further Readings -- 14 Discourse and Identity -- Ideological Criticism and Cultural Studies -- The Discourse of the Industry I: Production Studies -- The Discourse of the Industry II: Political Economy -- Discourse and Identity I: Gender -- Discourse and Identity II: Queer Theory -- Discourse and Identity III: Race and Ethnicity -- Summary -- Further Readings -- Appendix I: Sample Analyses and Exercises -- Appendix II: Mass Communication Research -- Glossary -- Index
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