LEADER 02724oam 2200637I 450 001 9910789744903321 005 20230126204925.0 010 $a1-136-94272-6 010 $a1-283-36376-3 010 $a9786613363763 010 $a0-203-84764-4 010 $a1-136-94273-4 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203847640 035 $a(CKB)2670000000131256 035 $a(EBL)817212 035 $a(OCoLC)768082564 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000637765 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12295170 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000637765 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10685767 035 $a(PQKB)10716430 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC817212 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL817212 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10519621 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL336376 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000131256 100 $a20180706d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLegitimating television $emedia convergence and cultural status /$fMichael Z. Newman and Elana Levine 210 1$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2012. 215 $a1 online resource (228 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-88026-2 311 $a0-415-88025-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aLegitimating 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. 330 $aLegitimating 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 a 606 $aTelevision broadcasting$xSocial aspects 606 $aTelevision$xTechnological innovations 615 0$aTelevision broadcasting$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aTelevision$xTechnological innovations. 676 $a302.23/45 676 $a302.2345 700 $aNewman$b Michael Z.$01152065 701 $aLevine$b Elana$f1970-$01497722 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910789744903321 996 $aLegitimating television$93722954 997 $aUNINA