After the Break
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After the Break
TELEVISUAL CULTURE
Table of Contents
After the Break, Television Theory Today
1. Questioning the crisis
2. New paradigms
3. New concepts
4. Concluding thoughts
References
Part I: Questioning the crisis
‘Unreading’ contemporary television
1. Analyzing quality television…and why it is redundant
2. The complexities of television as medium
3. Unreading television
4. Conclusion
References
Caught, Critical versus everyday perspectives on television
1. Media 2.0 and the cultural studies perspective on television
2. The mass communication paradigm in its protoprofessionalized version
3. Conclusion
Notes
References
The persistence of national TV, Language and cultural proximity in Flemish fiction
1. National television in a global era
2. National viewing
3. The Flemish case
4. Conclusion
Notes
References
Constructing television, Thirty years that froze an otherwise dynamic medium
1. An era of constraint
2. The public and the nation: lessons from the Third Reich
3. A television freeze and a Cold War
4. Contextualizing constraint
Notes
References
When old media never stopped being new, Television’s history as an ongoing experiment
1. Always already new: the ongoing transformation of television
2. Experimental systems
3. Experiments in television
4. Experimental moments of broadcast/network television
5. Broadcast/network television as an ongoing experiment
6. Post-network experiments
7. Closing remark on television studies
Notes
References
Part II: New paradigms
Unblackboxing production, What media studies can learn from actor-network theory
1. ANT – a very short introduction
2. A mechanics of power
3. Media from an ANT perspective
4. The media’s mechanics of power
5. A teaching moment
6. Conclusion
Notes
References
Convergence thinking, information theory and labour in ‘end of television’ studies
1. Introduction
2. The empirical tendency and information theory
3. Convergence thinking
4. Conclusion
Notes
References
Television memory after the end of television history?
1. Television memory and television history
2. Television memory and audience research
3. The complexity of the concept of television memory
4. Representations of the past on television: television as memory maker
5. Towards a new participative television memory
6. Conclusion
Notes
References
Part III: New concepts
YouTube beyond technology and cultural form
1. Introduction
2. YouTube as technology: homecasting
3. YouTube as social practice: video-sharing
4. YouTube as cultural form: snippets
5. Conclusion
Notes
References
Move along folks, just move along, there’s nothing to see, Transience, televisuality and the paradox of anamorphosis
Notes
References
Barry Chappell’s Fine Art Showcase. Apparitional TV, aesthetic value, and the art market
1. The value of art on TV
2. The art of selling the work of art
3. Apparitional television
4. Conclusion
Notes
References
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