Televisuality: Style, Crisis, and Authority in American Television by John Thornton Caldwell

Televisuality: Style, Crisis, and Authority in American Television by John Thornton Caldwell

Holling is tormented by Koyaanisqatsi dreams until he goes out and does the wild thing with a young stag . . . . --Synopsis from production company Bible, Northern Exposure, March 30, 1992

The collision of auteurism and rap--couched by primetime producers in the Northern Exposure script--was actually rather commonplace by the early 1990s. Series, and even news broadcasts, regularly engineered their narratives around highly coded aesthetic and cultural fragments, with a kind of ensemble iconography. Televisuality interrogates the nature of such performances as an historical phenomenon, an aesthetic and industrial practice, and as a socially symbolic act. This book suggests that postmodernism does not fully explain television's stylistic exhibitionism and that a reexamination of high theory is in order. Caldwell's unique approach successfully integrates production practice with theory in a way that will enlighten both critical theory and cultural studies.

John T. Caldwell is a Distinguished Research Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of California-Los Angeles. He is the author of Production Culture: Industrial Reflexivity and Critical Practice in Film and Television (2008), and the director of Freak Street to Goa, Rancho California (por favor), and Land Hacks, which have been featured in Amsterdam, Paris, and Berlin, and at the Margaret Mead and Sundance Film Festivals. He was awarded the Outstanding Pedagogy Award by the Society of Cinema and Media Studies in 2018.

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ISBN 13	9780813521640
ISBN 10	0813521645
Titel	Televisuality: Style, Crisis, and Authority in American Television
Autor	John Thornton Caldwell
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Rutgers University Press
Erscheinungsjahr	1995-07-30
Seitenanzahl	456
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