Television CriticismTelevision Criticism presents an original treatment of television criticism with a foundational approach to the nature of criticism, an understanding of the business of television, production background in creating television style, in-depth chapters on storytelling and narrative theories and television genres, the interaction of rhetoric and cultural studies theories, representation, and postmodernism. It presents new and comprehensive guidelines for analysis and criticism, and it has a sample critique of the television program "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation." |
Contents
FORMAL ASPECTS OF TELEVISION | 49 |
THEORETICAL APPROACHES | 135 |
Postmodernism | 181 |
References | 233 |
Index | 247 |
About the Author | 261 |
The Work of the Critic 3 | v |
Television the Nations Storyteller 69 | vi |
Television Genres 95 | vii |
Representation and Its Audience 163 | viii |
Demystifying the Business of Television 21 | 21 |
News 114 | 114 |
MTVs Influences 190 | 190 |
Suggested Readings 196 | 196 |
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