Legitimating Television Media Convergence and Cultural Status

Name: Legitimating Television Media Convergence and Cultural Status
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ISBN: 9780415880268

ISBN-10: 0415880262

ISBN-13: 9780415880268

Edition: 2012

Authors: Elana Levine, Michael Z. Newman

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Legitimating Televisionexplores the increasingly prevalent idea that TV has gotten better. This notion, circulating in the popular press, the TV industry, and media scholarship, typically references shows like The Sopranosand new technologies like DVRs and HDTV sets. Across these sites, the cultural legitimation of television highlights the medium's rise in status from its previous reputation as the "idiot box" to a more respectable level, especially among cultural elites. But there are troubling ideological implications to this, as the upgrade of television's status comes at the expense of forms of TV deemed unworthy. These delegitimated forms are associated with audiences characterized by…

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List price: $34.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 10/10/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 220
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Acknowledgements


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


Bibliography