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Televisuality: style, crisis, and authority in American television

John Thornton Caldwell c1995 © Rutgers University Press
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  • 9780813521633 (hardcover)
  • 9780813521640 (paper)
Subject
  • Film & Media Studies
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  • Frontmatter
  • Preface (page vii)
  • Acknowledgments (page xiii)
  • Part I The Problem of the Image
    • 1 Excessive Style The Crisis of Network Television (page 3)
    • 2 Unwanted Houseguests and Altered States A Short History of Aesthetic Posturing (page 32)
    • 3 Modes of Production The Televisual Apparatus (page 73)
  • Part II The Aesthetic Economy of Televisuality
    • 4 Boutique Designer Television/Auteurist Spin Doctoring (page 105)
    • 5 Franchiser Digital Packaging/Industrial-Strength Semiotics (page 134)
    • 6 Loss Leader Event Status Programming/Exhibitionist History (page 160)
    • 7 Trash TV Thrift-Shop Video/More Is More (page 193)
    • 8 Tabloid TV Styled Live/Ontological Stripmall (page 223)
  • Part III Cultural Aspects of Televisuality
    • 9 Televisual Audience Interactive Pizza (page 249)
    • 10 Televisual Economy Recessionary Aesthetics (page 284)
    • 11 Televisual Politics Negotiating Race in the L.A. Rebellion (page 302)
    • Postscript Intellectual Culture, Image, and Iconoclasm (page 336)
  • Notes (page 359)
  • Bibliography (page 407)
  • Index (page 423)
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FQ 51.4 (Summer 1998): 61-62 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1213260
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