The hour of television: crit. approaches
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1987
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| adam_text | THE HOUR OF
TELEVISION:
critical approaches
by
N D BflTRfl
The Scarecrow Press, Inc
fYletuchen, NJ, amp; London 1987
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction xi
1 CRITICAL APPROACHES TO TELEVISION 1
Literary Criticism Approach 2
Semiological-Structural Approach 6
Marxist Approach 11
Psychoanalytical Model I4
Sociological Analysis 1?
2 THE TELEVISION MODE 24
The Dramatic Mode 27
Television as Erotica 30
News That Entertains 32
Why Is Television So Amusing? 33
Psychology of Television Watching 35
3 EMERGING TELEVISION TECHNOLOGIES AND
THE CULTURAL LAG 40
Satellites 42
Cable TV 44
Subscription TV 46
MDS and SMATV 47
Direct Broadcast Satellite 48
Translators, LPTV-, etc 49
Videocassettes/disks 49
Teletext and Videotex 51
Cultural Lag 52
Privacy 54
Free Speech and the Fairness Doctrine 56
4 FORM AND STRUCTURE OF TELEVISION DRAMA 62
Screen Realism 63
v
Formulaic Conventions of Television
Series Drama 64
Plot and Characterization 65
Cliffhangers 67
Topicality 69
Commercial-punctuated Action 70
Hill Street Blues: The Case of
Recombinant Progeny 74
5 DRAMATIC SERIAL: PRIME TIME AND DAYTIME 82
Origin, Form and Structure 82
Structural Characteristics 86
Inside Soap Opera Today 88
Prime-time Series and Serials 89
Dallas to Dynasty 92
Guiding Light 96
6 SITCOM: THE HALF-HOUR COMEDY 101
A Typology of Sitcom 104
The Early Phase 105
First Phase: Television Sitcoms of
Traditional Families 106
Second Phase: Back-to-Nature Sitcoms 107
Third Phase: Social Problem Sitcoms 108
M*A*S*H 108
The Mary Tyler Moore Show 112
All in the Family 115
Fourth Phase: Sitcoms Which Delight and
Instruct 118
Bill Cosby: The Comic Godfather of
America 118
7 THE COLLECTIVE AS CREATOR 123
Negotiated Creativity 123
The Role of the Producer 128
Grant Tinker s MTM 132
Norman Lear and the Dramatization of
Resentment - 137
8 NEWS AND NEWSCASTERS 143
Structure of the Newscast 150
TV News as Business, as Show Business 152
Can Television Be Fair? 156
vi
9 TELEVISION DOCUMENTARY IN AMERICAN
CULTURE 164
Flaherty, Grierson, Vertov 165
March of Time 168
Documentary as Combat-Expose: See It Now 170
Documentary as Judgment 172
Documentary as an Epic 173
Massaging the Message: The Times of
Harvey Milk 175
Minidocumentaries and Counter-documentaries 176
The Nation s Conscience Keeper 178
10 THE POETICS AND RHETORIC OF DOCUDRAMA 184
The Roots of Docudrama 185
The Fear of the Genre 189
11 MINI-SERIES: EPIC IN THE AGE OF
TELEVISION 198
The Problem of Adaptation 202
The Narrative Structure of the Mini-series 206
The Jewel in the Crown and the American
Audience 211
The Narrator as an Intruder, as a Noise 213
The Thorn Birds: An Epic of Sin and
Suffering in the Vatican Backyard 215
12 TELEVISION CRITIC AS A SOCIAL PROPHET 218
The Issues 218
Standards and Practices of a Good Critic 222
Ideology, Idealism and Ideal Types 225
13 THE WAYS OF NIELSEN 228
Television Audiences as Markets of Taste 228
Ratings 233
What Ratings Measure and Measure Not 241
Guardians of Public Taste - 244
Some Facts About American Television 246
14 CONCLUSION 249
Selected Bibliography 255
Index 263
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