Television And American Culture
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Television And American Culture
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Author : Jason Mittell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Television And American Culture written by Jason Mittell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Performing Arts categories.
Television and American Culture: An Overview introduces students to the study of television by looking at American television from a cultural perspective. The book is written for intermediate undergraduate and beginning graduate students for a range of television studies courses. Specifically, Mittell discusses television within the following contexts: the economics of the television industry, television's role within American democracy, the formal attributes of a variety of television genres, television as a site of gender and racial identity formation, television's role in everyday life, and the medium's technological and social impacts. The topical arrangement and comprehensive scope of the book differs from other television textbooks, arguing that we must incorporate a range of economic, political, aesthetic, and sociological perspectives to fully comprehend the medium of television.
Something Completely Different
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Author : Jeffrey S. Miller
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 2000
Something Completely Different written by Jeffrey S. Miller and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Fiction categories.
Between Emma Peel and tire Ministry of Silly Walks British television had a significant impact on American popular culture in the 1960s and 1970s. In Something Completely Different, Jeffrey Miller offers the first comprehensive study of British programming on American television, discussing why the American networks imported such series as The Avengers and Monty Python's Flying Circus; how American audiences received these uniquely British shows; and how the shows' success reshaped American television. Miller's lively analysis covers three genres: spy shows, costume dramas, and sketch comedies. In addition to his close readings of the series themselves, Miller considers the networks' packaging of the programs for American viewers and the influences that led to their acceptance, including the American television industry's search for new advertising revenue and the creation of PBS.
Demographic Vistas
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Author : David Marc
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2010-11-24
Demographic Vistas written by David Marc and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-24 with Social Science categories.
In Demographic Vistas, David Marc shows how we can take television seriously within the humanist tradition while enjoying it on its own terms. To deal with the barrage of messages from television's chaotic history, Marc adapts tools of theatrical and literary criticism to focus on key personalities and genres in ways that reward serious students and casual viewers alike. This updated edition includes a new foreword by Horace Newcomb and a new introduction by the author that discusses the ways in which the nature of television criticism has changed since the book's original publication in 1984. A new final chapter explores the paradox of the diminishing importance of over-the-air broadcasting during the period of television's greatest expansion, which has been brought about by complex technologies such as cable, videocassette recorders, and online services.
Television In Black And White America
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Author : Alan Nadel
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Television In Black And White America written by Alan Nadel and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
La couverture indique : "Alan Nadel's new book reminds us that most of the images on early TV were decidedly Caucasian and directed at predominantly white audiences. Television did not invent whiteness for America, but it did reinforce it as the norm - particularly during the Cold War years. Nadel now shows just how instrumental it was in constructing a narrow, conservative, and very white vision of America." "During this era, prime-time TV was dominated by "adult Westerns," with heroes like The Rebel's Johnny Yuma reincarnating Southern values and Bonanza's Cartwright family reinforcing the notion of white patriarchy - programs that, Nadel shows, bristled with Cold War messages even as they spoke to the nation's mythology. America had become visually reconfigured as a vast Ponderosa, crisscrossed by concrete highways designed to carry suburban white drivers beyond the moral challenge of racism, racial poverty, and increasingly vocal civil rights demands."
Genre And Television
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Author : Jason Mittell
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-05-13
Genre And Television written by Jason Mittell and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-13 with Performing Arts categories.
Genre and Television proposes a new understanding of television genres as cultural categories, offering a set of in-depth historical and critical examinations to explore five key aspects of television genre: history, industry, audience, text, and genre mixing. Drawing on well-known television programs from Dragnet to The Simpsons, this book provides a new model of genre historiography and illustrates how genres are at work within nearly every facet of television-from policy decisions to production techniques to audience practices. Ultimately, the book argues that through analyzing how television genre operates as a cultural practice, we can better comprehend how television actively shapes our social world.
Television S Impact On American Culture
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Author : William Yandell Elliott
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1956
Television S Impact On American Culture written by William Yandell Elliott and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1956 with Television broadcasting categories.
Television And American Culture
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Author : Carl Lowe
language : en
Publisher: H. W. Wilson
Release Date : 1981
Television And American Culture written by Carl Lowe and has been published by H. W. Wilson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Performing Arts categories.
A compilation of articles about television and its effect on politics, religion, education, and other aspects of American culture.
American Culture And The Media
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Author : Anne Cassebaum
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
American Culture And The Media written by Anne Cassebaum and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with History categories.
[The book] is based on [the author's] belief that reading and writing skills are best taught together and in the context of high-interest subject matter. In section I, the mass media ... form a familiar and reassuring, yet rich and complex, subject for exploration and analysis. Section II, the rhetoric and brief handbook, gives advice and information for students to use as they work on their papers.... Fifty thematically unified high-interest readings in section I. -Pref.
Cold War Cool Medium
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Author : Thomas Doherty
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2005-03-10
Cold War Cool Medium written by Thomas Doherty and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-03-10 with Social Science categories.
Conventional wisdom holds that television was a co-conspirator in the repressions of Cold War America, that it was a facilitator to the blacklist and handmaiden to McCarthyism. But Thomas Doherty argues that, through the influence of television, America actually became a more open and tolerant place. Although many books have been written about this period, Cold War, Cool Medium is the only one to examine it through the lens of television programming. To the unjaded viewership of Cold War America, the television set was not a harbinger of intellectual degradation and moral decay, but a thrilling new household appliance capable of bringing the wonders of the world directly into the home. The "cool medium" permeated the lives of every American, quickly becoming one of the most powerful cultural forces of the twentieth century. While television has frequently been blamed for spurring the rise of Senator Joseph McCarthy, it was also the national stage upon which America witnessed—and ultimately welcomed—his downfall. In this provocative and nuanced cultural history, Doherty chronicles some of the most fascinating and ideologically charged episodes in television history: the warm-hearted Jewish sitcom The Goldbergs; the subversive threat from I Love Lucy; the sermons of Fulton J. Sheen on Life Is Worth Living; the anticommunist series I Led 3 Lives; the legendary jousts between Edward R. Murrow and Joseph McCarthy on See It Now; and the hypnotic, 188-hour political spectacle that was the Army-McCarthy hearings. By rerunning the programs, freezing the frames, and reading between the lines, Cold War, Cool Medium paints a picture of Cold War America that belies many black-and-white clichés. Doherty not only details how the blacklist operated within the television industry but also how the shows themselves struggled to defy it, arguing that television was preprogrammed to reinforce the very freedoms that McCarthyism attempted to curtail.
Studies In Popular Culture
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
Studies In Popular Culture written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Popular culture categories.