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Book SynopsisThe latest edition of the acclaimed volume on television studies, featuring new original essays from leading scholars in the field
Although the digital age has radically altered the media and communications landscape worldwide, television continues to play a significant part of our lives. From its earliest beginnings through to the present day, television and its influence has been the subject of extensive study, critique, and analysis. A Companion to Television brings together contributions from prominent international scholars comprising a wide range of perspectives on the medium. Original essays define television in its current state, explore why it is still relevant, survey the ways in which television has been studied, discuss how television has changed, and consider what television might look like in the future.
Now in its second edition, this compendium includes fresh chapters that cover technological changes affecting television, contemporary appr
Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors ix
List of Tables and Figures xvii
Part I Introduction 1
Introduction 3
Janet Wasko and Eileen R. Meehan
Part II Theoretical Overview 15
1 Critical Perspectives on Television from the Frankfurt School to the Politics of Representation 17
Doug Kellner
Part III History 39
2 Our TV Heritage: Tracing the Logics of the Television Archive 41
Lynn Spigel
3 Locating the Televisual in Golden Age Television 63
Caren J. Deming and Deborah V. Tudor
4 The Past is Now Present Onscreen: Television, History, and Collective Memory 79
Gary R. Edgerton
Part IV Industry 105
5 Broadcasting in the Age of Netflix: When the Market is Master 107
Sylvia Harvey
6 The Audiovisual Industry and the Structural Factors of the Television Crisis 129
Giuseppe Richeri
7 Netflix, Inc. and Online Television 145
Jane Shattuc
8 Television Advertising: Texts, Political Economy, and Ideology 165
Matthew P. McAllister and Lars Stoltzfus‐Brown
9 Contested Connections: Public Broadcasting and Culture in Common 183
Graham Murdock
Part V Genres 199
10 Reality TV: Performances and Audiences 201
Annette Hill
11 Revisiting the Trade in Television News 221
Andrew Calabrese and Christopher C. Barnes
12 Twitter Watchers: The Care and Feeding of Cable News Flow in the Age of Trump 247
Deborah L. Jaramillo
13 Television and Sports 265
Michael R. Real and William M. Kunz
Part VI Programs 285
14 30 Rock and the Satirical Representation of the Television Industry 287
Lauren Bratslavsky
15 Nothing New Under the Sun: The Reimplementation of 80s Sitcom Tropes in NBC’s This is Us 307
Novotny Lawrence
Part VII Audiences 325
16 Children and Television: A Special Audience for a Special Medium 327
Dafna Lemish
17 Watching Television: A Political Economic Approach 345
Eileen R. Meehan
18 The Female Television Audience Updated: Women’s Television Culture in the Age of New Media 361
Andrea Press and Sarah R. Johnson
19 Television as a Moving Aesthetic: In Search of the Ultimate Aesthetic – The Self 379
Julianne H. Newton
Part VIII International Case Studies 403
20 Television in Latin America: Stages of Transition 405
John Sinclair
21 Drama, Audiences, and Authenticity: Television Programming and Audiences in Post‐Apartheid South Africa 423
Ruth Teer‐Tomaselli
22 Television in the Arab Region: History, Structure, and Transformations 439
Joe F. Khalil
23 Sixty Years of Chinese Television: History, Political Economy, and Ideology in a Conflicted Global Order 459
Yuezhi Zhao and Zhenzhi Guo
Index 477
