Television criticism:
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-225) and index |
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| ISBN: | 9781412991056 1412991056 |
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Titel: Television criticism
Autor: O'Donnell, Victoria
Jahr: 2013
Detailed Contents
Preface xiii
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction 1
PART I: ORIENTATION 7
I The Work of the Critic 9
Introduction 9
The Ends of Criticism 9
Journalistic Television Criticism 10
The Critical Stance 11
Criticism and Culture 13
Narrative and Contextual Reality 14
Critical Categories and Critical Choices 17
The Business of Television 18
The Familiar and the Unfamiliar in Television 19
Critical Orientation 19
Summary 20
Exercises 21
Suggested Readings 22
Demystifying the Business of Television 23
Introduction 23
The Role of Advertising, Ratings, and Schedules 24
Advertising 24
Ratings 24
Categories of Ratings 27
Demographics 27
Public Television and Ratings
Ratings and the Cost of Advertising
The Sweeps
Why Television Shows Get Renewed or Canceled
Ratings in the Summer
The Strategies of Television Advertising
Product Promotion Within Television Programs
Product Placement
Scheduling and Advertising
Noncommercial Channels
The Production of a Television Show
Production Houses
The Production Team
Writers
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Pilots and the "Pitch" 37
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The Producer 38
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The Writer's Treatment 41
Directors 42
Casting 43
Putting a Show Into Production 43
Summary 45
Exercises 46
Suggested Readings 47
PART II: FORMAL ASPECTS OF TELEVISION 49
3 Television Style 51
Introduction 51
Length of Shot and Framing 51
Multi-Camera Production 53
Reaction Shots 53
Lighting 54
Production on Film Versus Digital Video 55
Style, Reception, and Digital Video Practices 56
Modes of Presentation 58
Television Sound and Editing 59
Production Styles 60
Art Direction 60
The Split Screen 63
Directors 63
Actors 64
Summary 64
Exercises 65
Suggested Readings 66
¦ Television, the Nation's Storyteller 67
Introduction 67
Storytelling and the Human Condition 69
The Nature of Narrative 71
Narrative Theories 72
Aristotle's Narrative Theory 72
Propp's Narrative Theory 73
Barthes's Narrative Theory 73
Narrative Structure 75
Intertextuality 76
Characters 77
Archetypes 79
Myth 81
Close Analysis of Narrative Structure 86
Summary 86
Exercises 87
Suggested Readings 88
Television Genres 89
Introduction 89
Television Genre, Production, and Scheduling 90
The Rules for Classifying Genres 90
Genre and Television Criticism 92
Comedy 93
Situation Comedy 93
Animated Situation Comedy 102
Variety Comedy 103
Talk Shows 103
Nighttime Talk Shows 103
Daytime Talk Shows 104
Information Talk Shows 104
News 105
National and World News 105
Local News 106
News-Talk 107
24-Hour News 107
Magazine Shows 108
News-Talk-Entertainment 108
Investigative or Public Affairs 108
Celebrity News 109
Drama 109
Crime Shows (Detective, Police, FBI, and Forensic Science) 110
Workplace Drama HI
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Family Drama 112
Hybrid Drama . .„
Teleplays and Telefilms
Docudrama .,
Soap Opera 15
Science Fiction
Reality Shows
Sports
Children's Television
Game Shows
Other Genres
Summary
Exercises
Suggested Readings
Rhetoric and Culture
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PART III: THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO TELEVISION CRITICISM 123
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Introduction
Rhetoric
Classical Rhetoric
Rhetoric Through the Ages I28
Intentionality I2*
The Symbolic Nature of Rhetoric 129
The Rhetoric of Kenneth Burke 130
Television Rhetoric I32
Rhetoric and Values I33
Cultural Studies I35
British Cultural Studies I37
Power, Ideology, and Hegemony 138
Hall's Encoding/Decoding Model 139
The Codes of Television Production 141
Decoding and Pleasure 143
Summary 144
Exercises 145
Suggested Readings in Rhetoric 146
Suggested Readings in Cultural Studies 147
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Representation and Its Audience 149
Introduction 149
What Is Representation? 150
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Television Representation 150
Interpreting Representation 151
Reception of Televisual Images 152
Symbols 153
The Illusion of Reality 153
The Need for Images 154
Representation of the "Other" 155
Advice for Television Critics 158
Representation and Collective Memory 160
Summary 161
Exercises 162
Suggested Readings 163
Postmodernism 165
Introduction 165
Postmodernism Defined 166
Postmodern Television 168
MTV 170
MTV Reinvented 172
MTV's Influences 173
Postmodern Theories 173
Summary 176
Exercises 177
Suggested Readings 178
PART IV: CRITICAL APPLICATIONS 179
27 Guidelines for Television Criticism 181
Introduction 181
Critical Orientation 182
Story and Genre 182
Organization 184
Opening Segment 184
The Structure of the Program 188
Demographics 188
Context 189
The Look of the Program and Its Codes 190
Analysis 192
Judgment 194
Writing Television Criticism 194
Summary 195
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Sample Criticism of a Television Program: Parenthood 197
Introduction l^7
Thesis IS7
Purpose I98
Description of Parenthood 198
Production Information 200
Description of the Episode 201
Questions for Analysis 203
Analysis and Interpretation 204
Story, Substance, and Context 204
Representation 208
Demographics and Viewer Involvement 209
Summary 210
Glossary 211
References 217
Index 227
About the Author 239 |
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