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Television: the critical view/ edited by Horace Newcomb

Contributor(s): Newcomb, HoraceMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: New York: Oxford University Press, 2000Edition: 6th edDescription: xiv-721 p. 24 cmISBN: 9780195119275Subject(s): Television broadcasting | United States | Television criticismDDC classification: 791.450973

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Contents Preface to the Sixth Edition, xi Preface to the First Edition, xiii HORACE NEWCOMB Television and the Present Climate of Criticism, 1 Part I The Production Contexts of Television, 13 CHRISTOPHER ANDERSON Disneyland, 17 MARK ALVEY The Independents: Rethinking the Television Studio System, 34 PHIL WILLIAMS Feeding Off the Past: The Evolution of the Television Rerun, 52 LYNN SPIGEL Women's Work, 73 vit i 'Oiltctits JULIE D'ACCI Women Characters and "Real World" Heniininit\100 JACKIE BYARS and EILEEN R. MEEHAN Once in a Lifetime: Constructing "The Working Woman" through Cable Narrowcasting, 144 DAVID BARKER lelevision Production lechniques as C'ommunication, 169 HAL HIMMELSTEIN Kodak's "America": Images from the American Hden, 183 JOHN CORNER C:ivic Visions: Forms of Documentan', 207 Part II Television Texts, 237 CHARLES McGRATH The Triumph of the Prime-Time Novel, 242 ADRIENNE L. McLEAN Media Effects: Marshall McLuhan, Television Culture, and "The X-Files," 253 MILLY BUONANNO II Maresciallo Rocca: The Italian Way to the TV Police Series, 266 HERMAN GRAY The Politics ofRepresentation in Network Television, 282 PAT KIRKHAM and BEVERLEY SKEGGS Absolutely Fabulous: Absolutely Feminist?, 306 DOUGLAS KELLNER Beavts and Butt-Head: No Future for Postmodern Youth, 319 AMERICA RODRIGUEZ Objectivity and Ethnicity in the Production of the Noticiero Univision, 330 BERNARD TIMBERG The Unspoken Rules of Television Talk, 354 Contents MICHAEL SKOVMAND Barbarous TV International: Syndicated Wheels of Forttnte, 367 IB BONDEBJERG Public Discourse/Private Fascination: Hybridization in "True-Life-Stor\'" Genres, 383 DANIEL DAYAN and ELIHU KATZ Defining Media f:vents: High Holidays of Mass Communication, 401 Part III The Reception Contexts of Television, 421 JOSHUA MEYROWITZ Multiple Media Literacies, 425 JUSTIN LEWIS and SUT JHALLY The Struggle Over Media Literacy, 439 ANNA McCarthy "The Front Row Is Reser\'ed for Scotch Drinkers": Early Television's Tavern Audience, 451 HENRY JENKINS III Star Trek Rerun, Reread, Rewritten: Fan Writing as Textual Poaching, 470 ELLEN SEITER Making Distinctions in TV Audience Research. Case Study of a Troubling Interview, 495 JOSTEIN GRIPSRUD "The Cultural Debate of the Ages": History, Culture, and Media Politics in Public Reception, 519 Part IV Overviews, 557 HORACE NEWCOMB and PAUL M. HIRSCH Television as a Cultural Forum, 561 TODD GITLIN Prime Time Ideology: The Hegemonic Process in Television Entertainment, 574 .V Contents DAVID THORBURN Television Melodrama, S95 CHARLOTTE BRUNSDON What Ts the " Television" of Television Studies?, 609 DAVID MARC What Was Rroadcasting?, 629 JOHN THORNTON CALDWELL Hxcessi\e Style: The Oisis of Network Televisit^n, 649 JAMES HAY Invisible (Jties/Msible CJeographies: 'Toward a C'ultural Geography of Italian Television in the 1990s, 687 ERIC MICHAELS For a (Ailtural Future, 701 About the Authors, 717

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Contents
Preface to the Sixth Edition, xi
Preface to the First Edition, xiii
HORACE NEWCOMB
Television and the Present Climate of Criticism, 1
Part I The Production Contexts of Television, 13
CHRISTOPHER ANDERSON
Disneyland, 17
MARK ALVEY
The Independents: Rethinking the Television Studio System, 34
PHIL WILLIAMS
Feeding Off the Past: The Evolution of the Television Rerun, 52
LYNN SPIGEL
Women's Work, 73
vit
i 'Oiltctits
JULIE D'ACCI
Women Characters and "Real World" Heniininit\100
JACKIE BYARS and EILEEN R. MEEHAN
Once in a Lifetime: Constructing "The Working Woman"
through Cable Narrowcasting, 144
DAVID BARKER
lelevision Production lechniques as C'ommunication, 169
HAL HIMMELSTEIN
Kodak's "America": Images from the American Hden, 183
JOHN CORNER
C:ivic Visions: Forms of Documentan', 207
Part II Television Texts, 237
CHARLES McGRATH
The Triumph of the Prime-Time Novel, 242
ADRIENNE L. McLEAN
Media Effects: Marshall McLuhan, Television Culture,
and "The X-Files," 253
MILLY BUONANNO
II Maresciallo Rocca: The Italian Way to the TV Police Series, 266
HERMAN GRAY
The Politics ofRepresentation in Network Television, 282
PAT KIRKHAM and BEVERLEY SKEGGS
Absolutely Fabulous: Absolutely Feminist?, 306
DOUGLAS KELLNER
Beavts and Butt-Head: No Future for Postmodern Youth, 319
AMERICA RODRIGUEZ
Objectivity and Ethnicity in the Production
of the Noticiero Univision, 330
BERNARD TIMBERG
The Unspoken Rules of Television Talk, 354
Contents
MICHAEL SKOVMAND
Barbarous TV International: Syndicated Wheels of Forttnte, 367
IB BONDEBJERG
Public Discourse/Private Fascination: Hybridization
in "True-Life-Stor\'" Genres, 383
DANIEL DAYAN and ELIHU KATZ
Defining Media f:vents: High Holidays of Mass Communication, 401
Part III The Reception Contexts of Television, 421
JOSHUA MEYROWITZ
Multiple Media Literacies, 425
JUSTIN LEWIS and SUT JHALLY
The Struggle Over Media Literacy, 439
ANNA McCarthy
"The Front Row Is Reser\'ed for Scotch Drinkers":
Early Television's Tavern Audience, 451
HENRY JENKINS III
Star Trek Rerun, Reread, Rewritten: Fan Writing
as Textual Poaching, 470
ELLEN SEITER
Making Distinctions in TV Audience Research.
Case Study of a Troubling Interview, 495
JOSTEIN GRIPSRUD
"The Cultural Debate of the Ages": History, Culture,
and Media Politics in Public Reception, 519
Part IV Overviews, 557
HORACE NEWCOMB and PAUL M. HIRSCH
Television as a Cultural Forum, 561
TODD GITLIN
Prime Time Ideology: The Hegemonic Process
in Television Entertainment, 574
.V Contents
DAVID THORBURN
Television Melodrama, S95
CHARLOTTE BRUNSDON
What Ts the " Television" of Television Studies?, 609
DAVID MARC
What Was Rroadcasting?, 629
JOHN THORNTON CALDWELL
Hxcessi\e Style: The Oisis of Network Televisit^n, 649
JAMES HAY
Invisible (Jties/Msible CJeographies: 'Toward a C'ultural Geography
of Italian Television in the 1990s, 687
ERIC MICHAELS
For a (Ailtural Future, 701
About the Authors, 717

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