A Companion to Television.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Tables and Figures -- Part I Introduction -- Introduction -- What is Television? -- Why Should We Still Bother to Understand Television? -- How Can We Understand Television Today? -- Chapter Overviews -- References -- Part II Theoretical Overview -- Chapter 1 Critical Perspectives on Television from the Frankfurt School to the Politics of Representation -- The Frankfurt School and the Culture Industries -- Critical Perspectives From/After the Frankfurt School -- Oppositional Social Movements and the Politics of Representation -- The Postmodern Turn Within Critical Television Studies -- Notes -- References -- Part III History -- Chapter 2 Our TV Heritage: Tracing the Logics of the Television Archive1 -- Storing Waste: The First TV Archives -- From Enlightenment to Nostalgia -- DYI Archives and Archives in the Cloud -- Other Televisions: Storage and the Politics of Memory -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3 Locating the Televisual in Golden Age Television -- Introduction -- Constituents of the Televisual -- Televisuality in the Golden Age: Gertrude Berg and The Goldbergs -- Televisual Space: Sample Synthetic Reading -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4 The Past Is Now Present Onscreen: Television, History, and Collective Memory -- A Different Kind of History Altogether -- The Many Faces of History on Television -- A Place for Made-for-Television History Alongside Professional History -- References -- Part IV Industry -- Chapter 5 Broadcasting in the Age of Netflix: When the Market is Master -- Introduction -- The Social Role of Broadcasting -- Legislation, Regulation, and the Shaping of Broadcasting -- What Do Audiences Want? News and Drama in the Age of Netflix -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References.

Chapter 6 The Audiovisual Industry and the Structural Factors of the Television Crisis1 -- Introduction -- Impact of the 2007-2008 Financial Crisis in the Television Market in Italy -- What Resources? Toward a Structural Crisis -- Audiovisual Production and Development of New Television Services -- Big Data and the Television Business Model -- Big Data for Content Analysis -- Some Critical Observations -- Conclusion with Questions -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 7 Netflix, Inc. and Online Television -- The Technological Shift -- The Business of Streaming TV -- Original Production by Streaming Networks -- The Ontological Crisis for the Media Industry -- Globalization -- Conclusion: Where Linear TV, Cable, and Streaming Crash into Each Other -- References -- Chapter 8 Television Advertising: Texts, Political Economy, and Ideology -- Beginnings of Television Advertising -- Television Commercials as Commodity and Commercial Fetishism -- Representation in Television Commercials -- The Political Economy of Television Commercials: Advertising as TV Funding System -- The Role of Digital Media in the Future of Commercials -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 9 Contested Connections: Public Broadcasting and Culture in Common -- Universalizing Service -- Commons and Communards -- Cementing Citizenship -- Imagining the Nation -- Selling Consumerism -- Contested Representations -- The Forward March of Marketization -- Capitalizing on Crisis -- Digital Enclosures -- On-Screen and Online: Culture in Common -- References -- Part V Genres -- Chapter 10 Reality TV: Performances and Audiences -- Defining Reality TV -- Debating Reality TV -- Performance of Selves -- Performance in Talent Shows -- The Moment's Moment -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 11 Revisiting the Trade in Television News -- Industry Restructuring and "Digital Disruption".

Regulating Toward Increased Ownership Concentration -- Ratings, Audiences, and Speed -- "Born-Digital" Video News Outlets -- Search for Civic Reform -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Chapter 12 Twitter Watchers: The Care and Feeding of Cable News Flow in the Age of Trump -- The Continuing Relevance of Flow -- MSNBC Flow: Key Moments -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Chapter 13 Television and Sports -- Analyzing Telesport: Background and Players -- Inside the Appeal of TV Sports: Arledge, Murdoch, and "Auteurs" -- The Telesport Text and Audience: Narrative Spectacle Intensified -- Gender, Race, and Class: Are Telesports Biased or Fair? -- Spectators and Viewers -- Production and the Political Economy of Televised Sports -- New Technologies and Methods of Delivery -- Critical Issues and Trends: Corporatization and Globalization -- References -- Part VI Programs -- Chapter 14 30 Rock and the Satirical Representation of the Television Industry -- The Premise and Problem of Critical Humor in Sitcoms -- About 30 Rock and "Biting the Hands That Feed" -- The Status Quo: Conglomeration, Concentration, and Commodification -- The Processes and Consequences of Media Conglomeration -- Conclusion: Satire's Critical Capacity -- Note -- References -- Chapter 15 Nothing New Under the Sun: The Reimplementation of 80s Sitcom Tropes in NBC's This is Us -- The Search for the "Right" Strategy -- This is Us and the 1980s Sitcom Formula -- Conclusion -- References -- Part VII Audiences -- Chapter 16 Children and Television: A Special Audience for a Special Medium -- Children and Television (Studies of Children as Audience) -- Children on Television (Representation Studies) -- Television for Children (Professional, Institutional, and Policy Studies) -- Conclusion: Quality Television for Children -- Notes -- References.

Chapter 17 Watching Television: A Political Economic Approach -- Tracking Television -- Political Supports for the American Television Industry -- Television's Interlinked Markets -- Creating a Ratings Market -- Continuity and Rivalry in Broadcast History -- Merging the Broadcast and Cable Television Industries -- Transindustrial Media Conglomeration -- Television's Truisms Versus Industrial Facts -- References -- Chapter 18 The Female Television Audience Updated: Women's Television Culture in the Age of New Media -- Before Television: Female Audiences in Film and Literature Studies -- Female Television Audiences: From Soap Operas to Sex and the City -- Postfeminism, Television, and the New Cultural Context -- Quality TV, Postfeminism and New Television Products -- Feminized Quality Television and Postfeminism -- Television Reception in the New Media Context -- Media Convergence: Moving Beyond Television with Gossip and the Kardashians -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Chapter 19 Television as a Moving Aesthetic: In Search of the Ultimate Aesthetic - The Self1 -- The Moving Aesthetic -- Asking the Right Question -- Definitions -- Approaches -- Aesthetics and Survival -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part VIII International Case Studies -- Chapter 20 Television in Latin America: Stages of Transition -- Understanding Television Development in Latin America -- Digital Transition and Diversification -- Conclusion and Summary -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 21 Drama, Audiences, and Authenticity: Television Programming and Audiences in Post‐Apartheid South Africa -- Television in the South African Mediascape -- Consumption of Television and the Profile of Television Audiences -- Programming and Genre Preferences on South African Television -- Local Drama and Soap Operas -- What Accounts for the Popularity of Soap Operas and Dramas?.

Themes: Family and Community in Soapie‐Dramas -- Changes in Television's Drama Formats in the Past Decade -- Language -- Locality -- Consumerism -- Variety, Magazines, and Reality Programs -- Sports -- Primetime News on Television -- News on Subscription Television -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Chapter 22 Television in the Arab Region: History, Structure, and Transformations -- Background -- Structure of Arab Television -- Television Content -- Global Arab TV: International Broadcasters -- Global Channels -- Over-the-Top Players -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 23 Sixty Years of Chinese Television: History, Political Economy, and Ideology in a Conflicted Global Order -- The Mao Era (1958-1977): Nationalistic Ambitions, Shifting Foreign Models -- The Early Reform Era (1978-1989): Westernization and Intellectual Vanguardism -- The Market Reform Era (1990-2012): The Possibilities and Limits of State‐Controlled Commercialization -- The Xi Jinping Era (2013-Present): Chinese Dreams, Global Ambitions, and the New Politics of Chinese Television -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- Index -- EULA.

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