Televisuality
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Subtitle: Style, Crisis, and Authority in American Television
Author: John Thornton Caldwell
Subject: Media and Communications Studies/American Studies/Performing Arts
Paper ISBN 0-8135-2164-5
Pages: 437 pp. 121 b&w illus.
Series: Communications, Media, and Culture Series
Description:
The collision of auteurism and rap--couched by primetime producers in the Northern Exposure script--was 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. Televisuality interrogates 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.
John Thornton Caldwell is chair of the Radio/TV/Film Department at California State University-Long Beach. His work has been published in Cinema Journal and American Television, broadcast on PBS and screened in festivals in Berlin, Paris, and Amsterdam.
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