Table of Contents: Televisuality :

Main Author:	Caldwell, John Thornton, 1954- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©1995.
Series:	Communication, media, and culture
Subjects:	Television broadcasting > Social aspects > United States. Television broadcasting > History. > United States Television programs > History and criticism. > United States Visual communication. Télévision > Aspect social > États-Unis. Télévision > Histoire. > États-Unis Télévision > Émissions > États-Unis > Histoire. Communication visuelle. SOCIAL SCIENCE > Media Studies. Television broadcasting. Television broadcasting > Social aspects. Television programs. Televisieprogramma's. Sociale aspecten. Télévision > Émissions > États-Unis. > Aspect social Theorie. Fernsehtechnik. United States. USA.
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Table of Contents:

pt. I. The problem of the image. Excessive style: the crisis of network television ; Unwanted houseguests and altered states: a short history of aesthetic posturing ; Modes of production: the televisual apparatus
pt. II. The aesthetic economy of televisuality. Boutique: designer television/auteurist spin doctoring ; Franchiser: digital packaging/industrial-strength semiotics ; Loss leader: event status programming/exhibitionist history ; Trash TV: thrift-shop video/more is more ; Tabloid TV: styled live/ontological stripmall
pt. III. Cultural aspects of televisuality. Televisual audience: interactive pizza ; Televisual economy: recessionary aesthetics ; Televisual politics: negotiating race in the L.A. rebellion
Postscript: Intellectual culture, image, and iconoclasm.