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Televisuality : style, crisis, and authority in American television

Author: John Thornton Caldwell
Publisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©1995.
Series: Communication, media, and culture.
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Caldwell, John Thornton, 1954-
Televisuality.
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c1995
(OCoLC)624451881
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: John Thornton Caldwell
ISBN: 0813521637 9780813521633 0813521645 9780813521640
OCLC Number: 31329356
Description: xiv, 437 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Pt. I. The problem of the image. Excessive style: the crisis of network television ; Unwanted houseguests and altered states: a short history of aesthetic posturing ; Modes of production: the televisual apparatus --
Pt. II. The aesthetic economy of televisuality. Boutique: designer television/auteurist spin doctoring ; Franchiser: digital packaging/industrial-strength semiotics ; Loss leader: event status programming/exhibitionist history ; Trash TV: thrift-shop video/more is more ; Tabloid TV: styled live/ontological stripmall --
Pt. III. Cultural aspects of televisuality. Televisual audience: interactive pizza ; Televisual economy: recessionary aesthetics ; Televisual politics: negotiating race in the L.A. rebellion --
Postscript: Intellectual culture, image, and iconoclasm.
Series Title: Communication, media, and culture.
Responsibility: John Thornton Caldwell.

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