Television After TV

by Olsson, Jan; Spigel, Lynn; Caldwell, John Thornton (CON); Brunsdon, Charlotte (CON)

• ISBN13: 9780822333937
• ISBN10: 0822333937
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-12-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

"Lynn Spigel and Jan Olsson have assembled a stellar lineup of television scholars whose unique and differentiated approaches to television studies' future also provide a fascinating overview of where we are and how we got here. These essays will set the terms for how we look at television in the twenty-first century."--Michele Hilmes, editor of "The Television History Book"

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(40)
Lynn Spigel
I. INDUSTRY, PROGRAMS, AND PRODUCTION CONTEXTS
Convergence Television: Aggregating Form and Repurposing Content in the Culture of Conglomeration	41	(34)
John Caldwell
Life-styling Britain: The 8--9 Slot on British Television	75	(18)
Charlotte Brunsdon
What If?: Charting Television's New Textual Boundaries	93	(20)
Jeffrey Sconce
Interactive Television and Advertising Form in Contemporary U.S. Television	113	(20)
William Boddy
Flexible Microcastting: Gender, Generation, and Television-Internet Convergence	133	(30)
Lisa Parks
II. TECHNOLOGY, SOCIETY, AND CULTURAL FORM
Television's Next Generation: Technology/Interface Culture/Flow	163	(20)
William Uricchio
The Rhythms of the Reception Area: Crisis, Capitalism, and the Waiting Room TV	183	(27)
Anna McCarthy
Broadcast Television: The Chances of Its Survival in a Digital Age	210	(14)
Jostein Gripsrud
Double Click: The Million Woman March on Television and the Internet	224	(25)
Anna Everett
III. ELECTRONIC NATIONS, THEN AND NOW
One Commercial Week: Television in Sweden Prior to Public Service	249	(21)
Jan Olsson
Media Capitals: Cultural Geographies of Global TV	270	(33)
Michael Curtin
At Home with Television	303	(21)
David Morley
Pocho.com: Reimaging Television on the Internet	324	(25)
Priscilla Pena Ovalle
IV. TELEVISION TEACHERS
Television, the Housewife, and the Museum of Modern Art	349	(37)
Lynn Spigel
From Republic of Letters to Television Republic? Citizen Readers in the Era of Broadcast Television	386	(32)
John Hartley
Cultural Studies, Television Studies, and the Crisis in the Humanities	418	(29)
Julie D'Acci
Contributors	447	(4)
Index	451