02726oam 2200637I 450 991046174570332120200520144314.01-283-36376-397866133637630-203-84764-41-136-94273-410.4324/9780203847640 (CKB)2670000000131256(EBL)817212(OCoLC)768082564(SSID)ssj0000637765(PQKBManifestationID)12295170(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000637765(PQKBWorkID)10685767(PQKB)10716430(MiAaPQ)EBC817212(Au-PeEL)EBL817212(CaPaEBR)ebr10519621(CaONFJC)MIL336376(EXLCZ)99267000000013125620180706d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrLegitimating television media convergence and cultural status /Michael Z. Newman and Elana LevineNew York :Routledge,2012.1 online resource (228 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-415-88026-2 0-415-88025-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.Legitimating television -- Another golden age? -- The showrunner as auteur -- Upgrading the situation comedy -- Not a soap opera -- The television image and the image of the television -- Technologies of agency -- Television scholarship and/as legitimation.Legitimating Television: Media Convergence and Cultural Status explores how and why television is gaining a new level of cultural respectability in the 21st century. Once looked down upon as a ""plug-in drug"" offering little redeeming social or artistic value, television is now said to be in a creative renaissance, with critics hailing the rise of Quality series such as Mad Men and 30 Rock. Likewise, DVDs and DVRs, web video, HDTV, and mobile devices have shifted the longstanding conception of television as a household appliance toward a new understanding of TV aTelevision broadcastingSocial aspectsTelevisionTechnological innovationsElectronic books.Television broadcastingSocial aspects.TelevisionTechnological innovations.302.23/45302.2345Newman Michael Z.925777Levine Elana1970-925778MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910461745703321Legitimating television2078698UNINA