Now in its sixth edition and with twenty new selections, Television: The Critical View sheds light on everything from the latest prime-time television programs to news, talk shows, and commercials. This well established and critically acclaimed text remains the leading collection of critical essays about America's most important medium of communication. Featuring expanded coverage of international programming and discussions about the reception context of television, television within the context of Postmodernism, and the decreasing influence of broadcast television, Television is an essential text for any course involving television studies or criticism.
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"A valuable collection of essays on television criticism. Useful for any media criticism course."--Phyllis Zrzavy, Franklin Pierce College
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Horace Newcomb, Lambdin Kay Distinguished Professor for the Peabody Awards, Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Georgia.
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Television is NOT mindless entertainment!,
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I was assigned this book in a college course on television as popular culture. I seriously struggled with the text at first, but luckily I didn't sell it back. After rereading it again, it has completely smashed the myth that nothing on television is culturally viable. Do not fall into the trap of believing there is no culture left in America. This book will teach how to engage your television in a way that is as mentally stimulating as anything I can imagine. Do yourself a favor and get this book! It might take you a couple reads, but it's well worth it. Enjoy. (I took points off for density, but I have the 5th ed.)
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contemporary television representations, comedic relationships, hierarchical programming structure, upscale working women, consumerist caste, presumptive audience, stylistic exhibitionism, daytime market, glance theory, syndication industry, textual producers, fide consumers, grammar variables, diagnostic critique, medium literacy, primetime programming, police series, television melodrama, television studies, fan writing, depth clues, television scholars, television criticism, observational mode, viewer letters Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Los Angeles, The X-Files, Star Trek, Latin American, African American, Tyne Daly, Absolutely Fabulous, Oxford University Press, Meg Foster, Sharon Gless, World War, British Film Institute, John Fiske, Raymond Williams, Bruce Wilson, State Historical Society, Wisconsin Center Historical Archives, House Beautiful, Indiana University Press, Hill Street Blues, Walter Thompson, Stuart Hall, University of Chicago Press New!
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This section brings together essays that are both historical and practical. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
contemporary television representations, comedic relationships, hierarchical programming structure, upscale working women, consumerist caste, presumptive audience, stylistic exhibitionism, daytime market, glance theory, syndication industry, textual producers, fide consumers, grammar variables, diagnostic critique, medium literacy, primetime programming, police series, television melodrama, television studies, fan writing, depth clues, television scholars, television criticism, observational mode, viewer letters Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Los Angeles, The X-Files, Star Trek, Latin American, African American, Tyne Daly, Absolutely Fabulous, Oxford University Press, Meg Foster, Sharon Gless, World War, British Film Institute, John Fiske, Raymond Williams, Bruce Wilson, State Historical Society, Wisconsin Center Historical Archives, House Beautiful, Indiana University Press, Hill Street Blues, Walter Thompson, Stuart Hall, University of Chicago Press New!
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