ISBN:
9780203847640
,
9781136942730
,
9781283363761
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xi, 217 p.)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2012 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Legitimating Television
DDC:
302.23/45
Keywords:
Television broadcasting Social aspects
;
Television Technological innovations
;
Digitales Fernsehen
;
Fernsehempfänger
;
Rezeptionsästhetik
;
Technische Innovation
;
Zukunft
Abstract:
Legitimating Television explores the increasingly prevalent idea that TV has gotten better. This notion, circulating in the popular press, the TV industry, and media scholarship, typically references shows like The Sopranos and new technologies like DVRs and HDTV sets. Across these sites, the cultural legitimation of television highlights the medium's rise in status from its previous reputation as the "idiot box" to a more respectable level, especially among cultural elites. But there are troubling ideological implications to this, as the upgrade of television's status comes at the expense of
Description / Table of Contents:
Front Cover; Legitmating Television; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; 1. Legitimating Television; 2. Another Golden Age?; 3. The Showrunner as Auteur; 4. Upgrading the Situation Comedy; 5. Not a Soap Opera; 6. The Television Image and the Image of the Television; 7. Technologies of Agency; 8. Television Scholarship and/as Legitimation; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index;
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [196]-205) and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
