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Meanings of the Medium Perspectives on the Art of Television
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Edited by Katherine Usher Henderson and Joseph Anthony Mazzeo
ISBN: 0-275-93390-3
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-93390-6
215 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 3/20/1990
List Price: $98.95 (UK Sterling Price: £57.95)
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Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Series Title: Media and Society Series
Description: The latest addition to the Media and Society Series, Meanings of the Medium takes a new approach to the study of the past, present, and future of television. Most of its authors are not media experts but literary critics, philosophers, rhetoricians, and historians. They use their unique skills to examine three interwoven themes: the origin and meaning of American attitudes toward television, the relationship between "high" art and television's popular art, and the relationship between particular kinds of programs and the audience's sensibilities. Stressing an aesthetic and historical approach, the volume directs itself to the reasons why people watch particular programs and what these patterns tell us about ourselves. This volume is divided into three sections. First, "Television and Society" stresses the dynamic relationship between a particular genre and the sensibility of its audience. "Television Programming as Art" traces the subtle connections between "High" culture and examples of contemporary television programs. The development of American attitudes toward television is documented by media experts in the final section, "Television and Its Critics."
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Television and Society
  • Telegenic Colloquies: Paradigms of Society in the TV Talk Show by Robert Cluett
  • Television Intimacy: Paradoxes of Trust and Romance by Judith Kegan Gardiner
  • Field and Screen: Baseball and Television by Michael Seidel
  • Not Such A Long Way, Baby: Women and Televised Myth by Harriet Blodgett
  • Television Programming as Art
  • Ariosto and Bochco: Polyphonic Plotting in Orlando Furioso, Hill Street Blues, and L.A. Law by James V. Mirollo
  • The Good, the Bad and the Counterfeit: A Tolstoyan Theory of Television Narrative by Mary Sirridge
  • Richard Chamberlain's Hamlet Theoharis C. Theoharis
  • Television and Its Critics
  • Taking Television Too Seriously--and Not Seriously Enough by Barbara Lee
  • Mass Culture, Class Culture, Democracy, and Prime Time: Television Criticism and the Question of Quality, 1920-1988 by David Marc
  • From Mass Man to Postmodernism: Critical Analyses of Television for the Past Half Century by James. M. O'Brien
  • Bibliography
  • Index
LC Card Number: 89-16171
LCC Class: PN1992
Dewey Class: 791.45
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