cinematic and critical approaches to American broadcasting /
First Statement of Responsibility
Jon Nelson Wagner and Tracy Biga MacLean.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Continuum,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2008.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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1 online resource (vii, 223 pages)
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-223).
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Includes filmography: pages 201-207.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Chapter One: Introduction; Chapter Two: Elegy; Chapter Three: Paranoia; Chapter Four: New Flesh; Chapter Five: The Vidiot; Chapter Six: Apocalypse; Chapter Seven: Nostalgia; Chapter Eight: Feminization; Chapter Nine: Noir Fatal; Chapter Ten: Seriality; Chapter Eleven: Is There an Audience in the House?
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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The€overview of television criticism, which this book provides, comes appropriately at a moment of change. Television is becoming dramatically different as a result of new and€developing€technologies such as cable, HDTV, satellite transmission and broadband distributions. By concentrating on the still-dominant notion of television, what the authors call "Classical Network Television," they argue that it is as important to understand this model as it is to understand Classical Hollywood Cinema. The€co-authors have a unique approach to the study of television, viewing its hi.