Television criticism. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Victoria O'Donnell.
• Authors: O'Donnell, Victoria
• Contents: PART I: ORIENTATION; Chapter 1: The Work of the Critic; Introduction; The Ends of Criticism; Journalistic Television Criticism; The Critical Stance; Criticism and Culture; Narrative and Contextual Reality; Critical Categories and Critical Choices; The Familiar and the Unfamiliar in Television; Critical Orientation; Chapter 2: Demystifying the Business of Television; Introduction; The Impact of the Internet and the Role of Advertising, Schedules, and Ratings; The Strategies of Television Advertising; Product Promotion Within Television Programs; Product Placement; Scheduling and Advertising; The Production of a Television Show; The Production Team; PART II: FORMAL ASPECTS OF TELEVISION; Chapter 3: Production Techniques and Television Style; Introduction; Length of Shot and Framing; Multi-Camera Production; Reaction Shots; Lighting; Production on Film Versus Digital Video; Style, Reception, and Digital Video Practices; Camera Choice Follows Function; Television Sound and Editing; Production Styles; Art Direction; The Split Screen; Directors; Actors; Chapter 4: Television, the Nation’s Storyteller; Introduction; Storytelling and the Human Condition; The Nature of Narrative; Narrative Theories; Narrative Structure; Intertextuality; Characters; Archetypes; Myth; Chapter 5: Television Genres; Introduction; Television Genre, Production, and Scheduling; The Rules for Classifying Genres; Genre and Television Criticism; Comedy; Talk Shows; News; Magazine Shows; Drama; Soap Opera; Science Fiction; Reality Shows; Sports; Children’s Television; Game Shows; Other Genres; PART III: THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO TELEVISION CRITICISM; Chapter 6: Rhetoric and Culture; Introduction; Rhetoric; Cultural Studies; Chapter 7: Representation and Its Audience; Introduction; What Is Representation?; Television Representation; Interpreting Representation; Reception of Televisual Images; Symbols; The Illusion of Reality; The Need for Images; Representation of the “Other”; Advice for Television Critics; Representation and Collective Memory; Chapter 8: Postmodernism; Introduction; Postmodernism Defined; Postmodern Television; The Influence of MTV; Postmodern Theories; PART IV: CRITICAL APPLICATIONS; Chapter 9: Guidelines for Television Criticism; Introduction; Critical Orientation; Story and Genre; Organization; Demographics; Context; The Look of the Program and Its Codes; Analysis; Judgment; Writing Television Criticism; Chapter 10: Sample Criticism of a Television Program: The Big Bang Theory—Season 8, Episode 824, “The Commitment Determination”; Introduction; Thesis; Purpose; Description of The Big Bang Theory; Production Information; Description of the Episode; Questions for Analysis; Analysis and Interpretation;
• Edition: 3rd edition
• Publisher Details: Los Angeles : SAGE
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 791.45; Television criticism; Television criticism -- United States
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781483377704; 9781483377674
• Related ISBNs: 9781483377681
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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