K. Henderson

Meanings of the Medium

Perspectives on the Art of Television
Herausgeber: Henderson, Katherine Usher; Mazzeo, Joseph Anthony

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. März 1990
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 495g
• ISBN-13: 9780275933906
• ISBN-10: 0275933903
• Artikelnr.: 25565826

Autorenporträt

KATHERINE USHER HENDERSON is Professor of English and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Dominican College of San Raphael. The author of Joan Didion, she has published extensively on women's studies and contemporary writers. JOSEPH ANTHONY MAZZEO is Avalon Foundation Professor Emeritus in the Humanities at Columbia University. He is the author of eight books including Varieties of Interpretation, Renaissance and Revolution: The Remaking of European Thought, The Design of Life: Major Themes in Biological Thought.

Inhaltsangabe

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