Televisuality : style, crisis, and authority in American television / John T. Caldwell.

• Part I. The problem of the image. Excessive style: the crisis of network television ; Unwanted houseguests and altered states: a short history of aesthetic posturing ; Modes of production: the televisual apparatus -- Part II. The aesthetic economy of televisuality. Boutique: designer television/auteurist spin doctoring ; Franchiser: digital packaging/industrial-strength semiotics ; Loss leader: event status programming/exhibitionist history ; Trash TV: thrift-shop video/more is more ; Tabloid TV: styled live/ontological stripmall -- Part III. Cultural aspects of televisuality. Televisual audience: interactive pizza ; Televisual economy: recessionary aesthetics ; Televisual politics: negotiating race in the L.A. rebellion -- Postscript: Intellectual culture, image, and iconoclasm.

• "The decline of network TV in the face of cable was a crisis in television history, but it also spawned new production initiatives to reassert network authority. John T. Caldwell's classic, Televisuality, demonstrates the cultural logic of stylistic exhibitionism in everything from prestige series and loss-leader event-status programming (Northern Exposure and War and Remembrance) to lower trash and tabloid forms (Pee-Wee's Playhouse and reality TV) as "import-auteurs" like Oliver Stone and David Lynch were stylized for prime time, and videographics packaged and tamed crisis news coverage. Drawing on production experience and critical and cultural analysis, Televisuality is a powerful call for desegregation of theory and practice in media scholarship and an end to the willful blindness of high theory."--Back cover. 

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Visual communication.  (LCSH)

Television broadcasting  -- Social aspects -- United States. (LCSH)

Television broadcasting  -- United States -- History. (LCSH)

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