TY  - BOOK
AU  - Caldwell,John T
TI  - Televisuality: Style, Crisis, and Authority in American Television 
T2  - Communications, Media, and Culture Series
SN  - 9781978816244
AV  - PN1992.6 
U1  - 302.2345 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - New Brunswick, NJ : 
PB  - Rutgers University Press, 
KW  - Television broadcasting
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Television programs
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Visual communication
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - tv, television, network television, cable programming, television history, exhibitionist practices, prime-time, prestige series, Northern Exposure, War and Remembrance, Pee-Wee's Playhouse, reality tv, import-auteurs, Oliver Stone, David Lynch, news coverage, media scholarship, tabloid tv
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Part I. The Problem of the Image --; Chapter 1. Excessive Style --; Chapter 2. Unwanted Houseguests and Altered States --; Chapter 3. Modes of Production --; Part II. The Aesthetic Economy of Televisuality --; Chapter 4. Boutique --; Chapter 5. Franchiser --; Chapter 6. Loss Leader --; Chapter 7. Trash TV --; Chapter 8. Tabloid TV --; Part III. Cultural Aspects of Televisuality --; Chapter 9. Televisual Audience --; Chapter 10. Televisual Economy --; Chapter 11. Televisual Politics --; Postscript. Intellectual Culture, Image, and Iconoclasm --; Acknowledgements --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index --; About the Author; restricted access
N2  - Although the "decline" of network television in the face of cable programming was an institutional crisis of television history, John Caldwell's classic volume Televisuality reveals that this decline spawned a flurry of new production initiatives to reassert network authority. Television in the 1980s hyped an extensive array of exhibitionist practices to raise the prime-time marquee above the multi-channel flow. Televisuality demonstrates the cultural logic of stylistic exhibitionism in everything from prestige series (Northern Exposure) and "loss-leader" event-status programming (War and Remembrance) to lower "trash" and "tabloid" forms (Pee-Wee's Playhouse and reality TV). Caldwell shows how "import-auteurs" like Oliver Stone and David Lynch were stylized for prime time as videographics packaged and tamed crisis news coverage. By drawing on production experience and critical and cultural analysis, and by tying technologies to aesthetics and ideology, Televisuality is a powerful call for desegregation of theory and practice in media scholarship and an end to the willful blindness of "high theory."
UR  - https://doi.org/10.36019/9781978816244
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781978816244
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781978816244/original
ER  -