{"product_id":"demographic-vistas-9780812215601","title":"Demographic Vistas","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Demographic Vistas, David Marc shows how we can take television seriously within the humanist tradition while enjoying it on its own terms. To deal with the barrage of messages from television's chaotic history, Marc adapts tools of theatrical and literary criticism to focus on key personalities and genres in ways that reward serious students and casual viewers alike.   This updated edition includes a new foreword by Horace Newcomb and a new introduction by the author that discusses the ways in which the nature of television criticism has changed since the book's original publication in 1984. A new final chapter explores the paradox of the diminishing importance of over-the-air broadcasting during the period of television's greatest expansion, which has been brought about by complex technologies such as cable, videocassette recorders, and online services.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A cooly sophisticated analysis . . . of American televsion.\" * \u003ci\u003eAmerican Studies International\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eDemographic Vistas\u003c\/i\u003e analyzes television in the tradition of a Gilbert Seldes or Michael Arlen. Exhibiting fluency in television history, theories of culture, and American literature, the book offers a thoughtful, idiosyncratic interpretation of television's life so far in American culture.\" * \u003ci\u003eCritical Studies in Mass Communication\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"Marc does a good job of drawing links between the American literary tradition and television themes, which illustrate that television texts are not isolated from the critical mainstream of American creative efforts. . . . These links illustrate that television texts offer themselves to much the same analytical forms as any other literary endeavor.\" * \u003ci\u003eSouthern Speech Communication Journal\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface to the 1984 Edition\u003cbr\u003e Foreword to the Revised Edition , by Horace Newcomb\u003cbr\u003e Introduction to the Revised Edition\u003cbr\u003e 1. Beginning to Begin Again\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Situation Comedy of Paul Henning: Modernity and the American Folk Myth in The Beverly Hillbillies\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Comedy of Public Safety\u003cbr\u003e 4. Gleason's Push\u003cbr\u003e 5. Self-Reflexive at Last\u003cbr\u003e 6. What Was Broadcasting?\u003cbr\u003e Appendix: Broadcast Network Prime Time Viewing Suggestions, 1984-96\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Glossary\u003cbr\u003e Main Index\u003cbr\u003e Index of Television Series\u003cbr\u003e Index of Films Made for Theatrical Release\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405690020183,"sku":"9780812215601","price":21.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812215601.jpg?v=1730493289","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/demographic-vistas-9780812215601","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}