Title Televisuality : style, crisis, and authority in American television / John Thornton Caldwell

Published New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [1995] ©1995

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Description xiv, 437 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm Series Communication, media, and culture Communication, media, and culture Contents 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 -- 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 -- 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [407]-421) and index Subject Television broadcasting -- Social aspects -- United States. Television broadcasting -- United States -- History. Television programs -- United States -- History and criticism. Television programs -- United States. Visual communication. LC no. 94039017 ISBN 0813521637 (cloth) 0813521645 (paperback)

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