A Companion To Television

by Wasko, Janet

• ISBN13: 9781405100946
• ISBN10: 140510094X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-05-27
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

A Companion to Television is a magisterial collection of original essays that charter the field of television studies over the past century. Contains 31 original essays covering the development of television studies over the last century Explores a diverse range of topics and theories that have led to television's current incarnation, and predict its likely future Covers technology and aesthetics, television's relationship to the state, televisual commerce; texts, representation, genre, internationalism, and audience reception and effects Essays are by an international group of first-rate scholars For information, news, and content from Blackwell's reference publishing program please visit www.blackwellpublishing.com/reference/

Author Biography

Janet Wasko is Professor in the School of Communication and Journalism at the University of Oregon. Her many books include Hollywood in the Information Age: Beyond the Silver Screen (1994), Consuming Audiences? Production and Reception in Media Research (1999), Understanding Disney: The Manufacture of Fantasy (2001), and How Hollywood Works (2003).

Table of Contents

List of Figures	viii
Notes on Contributors	ix
Introduction	1	(14)
Janet Wasko
Part I Theoretical Overviews
The Development of Television Studies	15	(14)
Horace Newcomb
Critical Perspectives on Television from the Frankfurt School to Postmodernism	29	(22)
Doug Kellner
Part II Television/History
Television and History	51	(16)
Paddy Scannell
Our TV Heritage: Television, the Archive, and the Reasons for Preservation	67	(36)
Lynn Spigel
Part III Television/Aesthetics and Production
Television as a Moving Aesthetic: In Search of the Ultimate Aesthetic -- The Self	103	(23)
Julianne H. Newton
Locating the Televisual in Golden Age Television	126	(16)
Caren Deming
Television Production: Who Makes American TV?	142	(15)
Jane M. Shattuc
Part IV Television/The State and Policy
Who Rules TV? States, Markets, and the Public Interest	157	(17)
Sylvia Harvey
Public Broadcasting and Democratic Culture: Consumers, Citizens, and Communards	174	(25)
Graham Murdock
Culture, Services, Knowledge: Television between Policy Regimes	199	(18)
Stuart Cunningham
Part V Television/Commerce
Television Advertising as Textual and Economic Systems	217	(21)
Matthew P. McAllister
Watching Television: A Political Economic Approach	238	(18)
Eileen R. Meehan
Keeping ``Abreast'' of MTV and Viacom: The Growing Power of a Media Conglomerate	256	(14)
Jack Banks
The Trade in Television News	270	(21)
Andrew Calabrese
Part VI Television/Programming, Content, and Genre
Configurations of the New Television Landscape	291	(17)
Albert Moran
The Study of Soap Opera	308	(16)
Christine Geraghty
The Shifting Terrain of American Talk Shows	324	(13)
Jane M. Shattuc
Television and Sports	337	(24)
Michael R. Real
``Where the Past Comes Alive'': Television, History, and Collective Memory	361	(18)
Gary R. Edgerton
``How Will You Make it on Your Own?'': Television and Feminism Since 1970	379	(16)
Bonnie J. Dow
Television and Race	395	(16)
Sasha Torres
Part VII Television/The Public and Audiences
Television, Public Spheres, and Civic Cultures	411	(22)
Peter Dahlgren
Television and Public Opinion	433	(16)
Justin Lewis
Reality TV: Performance, Authenticity, and Television Audiences	449	(19)
Annette Hill
A Special Audience? Children and Television	468	(21)
David Buckingham
Part VIII Television/Alternative Challenges
Local Community Channels: Alternatives to Corporate Media Dominance	489	(14)
DeeDee Halleck
Part IX International Television/Case Studies
Latin American Commercial Television: ``Primitive Capitalism''	503	(18)
John Sinclair
Television in China: History, Political Economy, and Ideology	521	(19)
Yuezhi Zhao
Zhenzhi Guo
Japanese Television: Early Development and Research	540	(18)
Shunya Yoshimi
Change and Transformation in South African Television	558	(22)
Ruth Teer-Tomaselli
Television in the Arab East	580	(22)
Nabil H. Dajani
Index	602