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Spectacular television : exploring televisual pleasure /
In terms of visual impact, television has long been regarded as inferior to cinema. It has been characterised as sound-led, dull to look at and consumed by a distracted audience. Today, it is tempting to see the rise of HD and 3D as ushering in a new era of spectacular television. Yet since its earl...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
I.B. Tauris,
2016.
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| Colección: | International library of the moving image ;
23. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Author bio; Endorsement; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Author's note; Introduction: What is spectacular television? What is (tele)visual pleasure?; The spectacular in audio-visual culture: Debates and problems; Categorising spectacular television: Genre, movement or mode?; Part I Spectacular Histories, Spectacular Technologies; 1 Television comes to town: The spectacle of television at the mid-twentieth-century exhibition and beyond; The Festival of Britain; The spectacle of television production at the National Radio Show.
- The spectacle of domestic modernity at the Ideal Home ExhibitionThe legacy of television at the exhibition; 2 Spectacular colour? Reconsidering the launch of colour television in Britain; Chromophobia and the problem of colour; Setting up colour television and selling it; On the question of 'spectacular colour' vs 'realist colour'; Making meaning or 'looking pretty'; Part II Spectacular Landscapes and the Natural World: Exploring Beautiful Television; 3 At home on safari: Colonial spectacle, domestic space and 1950s television; Colonial Kenya; Armand and Michaela Denis: At home on safari.
- 4 Visual pleasure, natural history television and televisual beautyInserting natural history into the quality debate; Visual pleasure and public service broadcasting; Beautiful television; 5 Television's landscapes, (tele)visual pleasure and the imagined elsewhere; The landscape programme and the contemplative viewer; Holidays, the tourist gaze and the imagined elsewhere; Part III Spectacular Bodies and (Tele)visual Pleasure; 6 Fascinating bodies: Looking inside television's somatic spectacle; Gazing inside the body: Mysterious places and wild rides.
- Freak shows, fascinomas and the medical economy of spectacularising the televisual bodyThe dead and the dying: The limits of corporeal spectacle on television; 7 The erotics of television; The proliferation of television sex; The proxemics of television
- televisual desire up close; Mapping female desire and the erotic spectacle of television; Intentional vs accidental erotic spectacle
- flows of televisual desire; Conclusion: Sites of wonder, sights of wonder; Notes; Introduction; Television comes to town; Spectacular colour? Reconsidering the launch of colour television in Britain.
- At home on safariVisual pleasure, natural history television and televisual beauty; Television's landscapes, (tele)visual pleasure and the imagined elsewhere; Fascinating bodies; The erotics of television; Conclusion; Bibliography.