The Age of Television

by Buonanno, Milly

• ISBN13: 9781841501819
• ISBN10: 1841501816
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-02-15
• Publisher: Intellect L & D E F A E

Summary

At a stage of major change of television landscapes (digital TV, multi-channels, mobile TV on cellphones) this book revolves around the impact of the presence of television in our daily life over the past fifty years. The author places at the centre of her analysis the human experience of place and time, and the way in which the medium has dramatically modified it.

Author Biography

Milly Buonanno is professor of the theory of television at the University of Rome.

 

 

Table of Contents

Preface: Horace Newcomb	p. 7
The Age of Television: Seeing far, going far	p. 11
Transitions	p. 11
A domesticated medium	p. 13
A dual sense of place	p. 17
Broadcasting and narrowcasting	p. 20
Theories of the Medium: Flow, glance, gaze	p. 27
Multiple conceptions of television	p. 27
History and critique of the flow	p. 30
The glance and the gaze	p. 36
Televised Ceremonies: The double coronation of Mother Teresa of Calcutta	p. 43
The theory of media events	p. 43
The global celebrity of a 'living saint'	p. 47
Two coronations	p. 50
The Catholic imagination	p. 51
The televisual biography	p. 53
A new television event	p. 54
The Digital Revolution: Other ways of watching television	p. 59
A medium in the making	p. 59
Instances of historical amnesia and technological utopia	p. 63
A televisual landscape without homogeneity	p. 66
From forum to library	p. 68
Storytelling: The multiple realities of television fiction	p. 71
The television 'super-narrator'	p. 71
The possible worlds of narrative imagination	p. 73
Different life-worlds	p. 75
Widened horizons of mediated experiences	p. 77
The Paradigm of Indigenization: Beyond media imperialism	p. 85
Paradigms revealed	p. 85
Going native	p. 88
Supply: the media are American	p. 91
Consumption: the tree hides the forest	p. 94
Influences: the audience adopts and adapts	p. 98
Travelling Narratives: International flows of television: from threat to resource	p. 101
Imagination and otherness	p. 101
Travelling narratives	p. 106
The neutralized threat	p. 109
The case of Europe	p. 112
Stopping Time: Life strategies in the formulae of television series and serials	p. 119
The elemental structures of seriality	p. 119
Going back to the origins of the formulae	p. 122
The theatre of immortality	p. 125
The 'frame story' of the Arabian Nights	p. 128
The story is there, just like life	p. 130
Bibliography	p. 133
Names Index	p. 143
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