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9780813521640

Televisuality

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  • ISBN13:

    9780813521640

  • ISBN10:

    0813521645

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1995-07-01
  • Publisher: Rutgers Univ Pr

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"Holling is tormented by Koyaanisqatsi dreams until he goes out and does the wild thing with a young stag . . . . "Synopsis from production company "Bible," Northern Exposure,March 30, 1992 The collision of auteurism and rapcouched by primetime producers in the Northern Exposurescriptwas actually rather commonplace by the early 1990s. Series, and even news broadcasts, regularly engineered their narratives around highly coded aesthetic and cultural fragments, with a kind of ensemble iconography. Televisualityinterrogates the nature of such performances as an historical phenomenon, an aesthetic and industrial practice, and as a socially symbolic act. This book suggests that postmodernism does not fully explain television's stylistic exhibitionism and that a reexamination of "high theory" is in order. Caldwell's unique approach successfully integrates production practice with theory in a way that will enlighten both critical theory and cultural studies.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Excessive Style: The Crisis of Network Televisionp. 3
Unwanted Houseguests and Altered States: A Short History of Aesthetic Posturingp. 32
Modes of Production: The Televisual Apparatusp. 73
Boutique: Designer Television/Auteurist Spin Doctoringp. 105
Franchiser: Digital Packaging/Industrial-Strength Semioticsp. 134
Loss Leader: Event Status Programming/Exhibitionist Historyp. 160
Trash TV: Thrift-Shop Video/More Is Morep. 193
Tabloid TV: Styled Live/Ontological Stripmallp. 223
Televisual Audience: Interactive Pizzap. 249
Televisual Economy: Recessionary Aestheticsp. 284
Televisual Politics: Negotiating Race in the L.A. Rebellionp. 302
Postscript: Intellectual Culture, Image, and Iconoclasmp. 336
Notesp. 359
Bibliographyp. 407
Indexp. 423
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