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How to Watch Television, Second Edition /

A new edition that brings the ways we watch and think about television up to the presentWe all have opinions about the television shows we watch, but television criticism is about much more than simply evaluating the merits of a particular show and deeming it "good" or "bad." Rat...

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Otros Autores: Thompson, Ethan (Editor ), Mittell, Jason (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : New York University Press, [2020]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • How to Watch Television, Second Edition
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface to the Second Edition
  • Introduction: An Owner's Manual for Television
  • Part I. TV Form: Aesthetics and Style
  • 1. Better Call Saul: The Prestige Spinoff
  • 2. Empire: Fashioning Blackness
  • 3. House : Narrative Complexity
  • 4. Looking : Smartphone Aesthetics
  • 5. Mad Men: Visual Style
  • 6. Nip/Tuck : Popular Music
  • 7. One Life to Live : Soap Opera Storytelling
  • 8. The Sopranos : Episodic Storytelling
  • Part II. TV Representation: Social Identity and Cultural Politics
  • 9. 24 : Challenging Stereotypes
  • 10. Bala Loca : Producing Representations
  • 11. Being Mary Jane : Cultural Specificity
  • 12. Buckwild : Performing Whiteness
  • 13. Glee/House Hunters International : Gay Narratives
  • 14. Grey's Anatomy : Feminism
  • 15. Master of None : Negotiated Decoding
  • 16. Orange Is the New Black : Intersectional Analysis
  • Part III. TV Politics: Democracy, Nation, and the Public Interest
  • 17. The Amazing Race : Global Othering
  • 18. America's Next Top Model : Neoliberal Labor
  • 19. East Los High : Televised Empowerment
  • 20. The Eurovision Song Contest : Queer Nationalism
  • 21. Fox & Friends : Political Talk
  • 22. Full Frontal with Samantha Bee : Feminist Comedy
  • 23. The Hunt with John Walsh : True Crime Storytelling
  • 24. Parks and Recreation : The Cultural Forum
  • Part IV. TV Industry: Industrial Practices and Structures
  • 25. The Ernie Kovacs Show : Historicizing Comedy
  • 26. Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life : TV Revivals
  • 27. I Love Lucy : The Writer- Producer
  • 28. Modern Family : Product Placement
  • 29. The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills : Franchising Femininity
  • 30. Roseanne : Programming Flow
  • 31. Tales from the Crypt : Content Regulation
  • 32. The Toy Box : Transmedia and Transgenerational Marketing
  • Part V. TV Practices: Medium, Technology, and Everyday Life
  • 33. Battlestar Galactica : Fans and Ancillary Content
  • 34. Everyday Italian : Cultivating Taste
  • 35. Gossip Girl : Transmedia Technologies
  • 36. High Maintenance and The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl : Indie TV
  • 37. Monty Python's Flying Circus : Layered Comedy
  • 38. NFL Broadcasts: Interpretive Communities
  • 39. Pardon the Interruption : Sports Debate
  • 40. The Walking Dead : Adapting Comics
  • Acknowledgments
  • About the Contributors
  • Index