| Notes: |
"With new introductory essay on Why Fiske Still Matters, by Henry Jenkins, and with a new discussion on the topic of John Fiske and "Television Culture", between Ron Becker, Aniko Bodroghkozy, Steve Classen, Elana Levine, Jason Mittell, Greg Smith and Pamela Wilson." |
| Contents: |
Some television, some topics, and some terminology. The codes of television ; Some terminology --
Realism. The form of realism ; Realism and radicalism --
Realism and ideology. Popularity ; Realism and discourse ; Television and social change --
Subjectivity and address. The social subject ; The discursive subject ; Addressing the subject ; Psychoanalysis and the subject --
Active audiences. Text and social subjects ; Making meanings ; Modes of reception ; Gossip and oral culture ; The social determination of meanings --
Activated texts. The polysemy of the television text ; Open, writerly texts ; Producerly texts ; Segmentation and flow ; Television and culture --
Intertextuality. Horizontal intertextuality ; Genre ; Inescapeable intertextuality ; Vertical intertextuality : reading the secondary text ; The tertiary text ; Intertextuality and polysemy --
Narrative. Realism revisited ; Structuralist approaches to narrative ; Mythic narrative ; Narrative structures ; Narrative codes ; Televisual narrative --
Character reading. Realist and structural approaches ; Reading character from the primary text ; Reading character : the secondary texts ; Identification, implication, and ideology --
Gendered television : femininity. Soap opera form ; Disruption ; Deferment and process ; Sexuality and empowerment ; Excess ; Plenitude and polysemy ; The feminine as decentered --
Gendered television : masculinity. The structure of the masculine A-Team ; The absence of women ; The absence of work and marriage ; The A-Team as achievement ; The phallus, the penis, and porn ; Male bonding and the hero team ; Gender and narrative form --
Pleasure and play. Psychoanalysis and pleasure ; Pleasure and social control ; Pleasure, play, and control ; Pleasure and rule breaking ; Empowering play ; Pleasure and textuality --
Carnival and style. Rock 'n' wrestling ; Style and music video ; The pleasures of Miami vice ; Commodified pleasure --
Quizzical pleasures. Game and ritual ; Knowledge and power ; Luck ; Commodities ; The active audience ; Articulating quiz shows --
News readings, news readers. The strategies of containment ; Categorization ; Subcategories ; Objectivity ; Exnomination and inoculation ; Metaphor ; News narrative ; News analysis ; The forces of disruption --
Conclusion : the popular economy. The problem of the popular ; The two economies ; Popular cultural capital ; Resistance and semiotic power ; Diversity and difference. BOOK COVER --
TITLE --
WHY FISKE STILL MATTERS --
JOHN FISKE AND TELEVISION CULTURE --
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS --
1. SOME TELEVISION, SOME TOPICS, AND SOME TERMINOLOGY --
2. REALISM --
3. REALISM AND IDEOLOGY --
4. SUBJECTIVITY AND ADDRESS --
5. ACTIVE AUDIENCES --
6. ACTIVATED TEXTS --
7. INTERTEXTUALITY --
8. NARRATIVE --
9. CHARACTER READING --
10. GENDERED TELEVISION: FEMININITY --
11. GENDERED TELEVISION: MASCULINITY --
12. PLEASURE AND PLAY --
13. CARNIVAL AND STYLE --
14. QUIZZICAL PLEASURES --
15. NEWS READINGS, NEWS READERS --
16. CONCLUSION: THE POPULAR ECONOMY --
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