LEADER 02951 am 22005053u 450 001 9910341839903321 005 20230621140801.0 010 $a1-950192-42-3 024 7 $a10.21983/P3.0263.1.00 035 $a(CKB)4100000009382813 035 $a(OAPEN)1005416 035 $a(OCoLC)1135853850 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse81972 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/34041 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000009382813 100 $a20190726h20192019 fy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmu#---auuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aTelevision scales /$fNick Salvato 210 $aBrooklyn, NY$cpunctum books$d2019 210 1$a[Santa Barbara, California] :$aEarth, Milky Way :$cpunctum books,$d2019. 210 4$dİ2019 215 $a1 online resource (143 pages) $cillustrations; PDF, digital file(s) 311 08$aPrint version: ?z 9781950192410 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 330 $a"How to reckon with the staggering volume of television materials, past and present? And how to comprehend all the potential, complex scales at which to grapple with television, from its tiniest units of audiovisual content to its most massive industrial coordinates and beyond? In Television Scales, Nick Salvato demonstrates how the problem of scale in the field of television may be turned into a resource and a method for a television studies that would pay better attention to messy medial complexities, peripatetic critical practices, and vulgar psychogeographies. Modeling his investigative practice on the meta-critical writing of social anthropologist Marilyn Strathern in Partial Connections and elsewhere, Salvato composes surprising, partial constellations of television's elements. In the process, his consideration ranges from classic television sitcoms like I Love Lucy to contemporary reality series such as The Biggest Loser, Iron Chef, and House Hunters International. He simultaneously pores over a number of key television phenomena, including technological mystification, performers' charismatic displays, binge viewing, and devoted fandom. An experiment in style and form, Television Scales maps, weighs, and rules television, while also undoing these very strategies for evaluating the medium"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aTelevision broadcasting$xSocial aspects 606 $aTelevision programs$xRating 606 $aTelevision viewers$zUnited States 610 $atelevision 610 $acultural studies 615 0$aTelevision broadcasting$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aTelevision programs$xRating. 615 0$aTelevision viewers 700 $aSalvato$b Nick$f1978-$0941076 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 801 2$bUkMaJRU 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910341839903321 996 $aTelevision scales$92122359 997 $aUNINA