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Record Nr.

UNISA996208182603316

Titolo

After the break : television theory today / / edited by Marijke de Valck and Jan Teurlings [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , 2013

ISBN

90-485-1867-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (202 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Televisual culture

Disciplina

791.45

Soggetti

Television broadcasting

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 Dec 2020).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- After the Break. Television Theory Today / de Valck, Marijke / Teurlings, Jan -- Part I: Questioning the crisis -- 'Unreading' contemporary television / Schwaab, Herbert -- Caught. Critical versus everyday perspectives on television / Hermes, Joke -- The persistence of national TV. Language and cultural proximity in Flemish fiction / Dhoest, Alexander -- Constructing television. Thirty years that froze an otherwise dynamic medium / Uricchio, William -- When old media never stopped being new. Television's history as an ongoing experiment / Keilbach, Judith / Stauff, Markus -- Part II: New paradigms -- Unblackboxing production. What media studies can learn from actor-network theory / Teurlings, Jan -- Convergence thinking, information theory and labour in 'end of television' studies / Hayward, Mark -- Television memory after the end of television history? / Francisco, Juan / Lozano, Gutiérrez -- Part III: New concepts -- YouTube beyond technology and cultural form / van Dijck, José -- Move along folks, just move along, there's nothing to see. Transience, televisuality and the paradox of anamorphosis / Bouman, Margot -- Barry Chappell's Fine Art Showcase. Apparitional TV, aesthetic value, and the art market / White, Mimi -- About the authors -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Television is evolving rapidly. How, then, might we respond to television today in light of its past? And do the old theoretical concepts still apply, or must we invent a new framework for this mutable medium? To answer these fundamental questions, the contributors to



this provocative collection examine diverse case studies, including up-to-date scholarship on the current television zeitgeist, nostalgic programming on broadcast television, YouTube, and public television art programming of the 1980s. As a whole, these essays challenge the supposed crisis in television in the light of its burgeoning development.