Channels of discourse, reassembled : television and contemporary criticism / edited by Robert C. Allen.

Contributor(s):

Allen, Robert Clyde, 1950-

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780807843741
0807843741
9780807898871
0807898872
9780203991329
020399132X
9781134894383
1134894384
9781134894420
1134894422
9781134894437
1134894430
0415080584
9780415080583
9780415080590
0415080592

Uniform titles:

Channels of discourse.

Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Channels of discourse, reassembled.DDC classification:

791.45/015 22

LOC classification:

PN1992.8.C7 C48 1992eb

Online resources:

EBSCOhost

Contents:

Introduction to the second edition : more talk about TV / Robert C. Allen -- Semiotics, structuralism, and television / Ellen Seiter -- Narrative theory and television / Sarah Kozloff -- Audience-oriented criticism and television / Robert C. Allen -- Genre study and television / Jane Feuer -- Ideological analysis and television / Mimi White -- Psychoanalysis, film, and television / Sandy Flitterman-Lewis -- Feminist criticism and television / E. Ann Kaplan -- British cultural studies and television / John Fiske -- Postmodernism and television / Jim Collins -- Afterword / James Hay -- Television criticism : a selective bibliography / Diane Negra.

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Review: "Since its original publication in 1987, Channels of Discourse has provided the most comprehensive consideration of commercial television, drawing on insights provided by the major strands of contemporary criticism: semiotics, narrative theory, reception theory, genre theory, ideological analysis, psychoanalysis, feminist criticism, and British cultural studies." "The second edition features a new introduction by Robert Allen that includes a discussion of the political economy of commercial television. Two new essays have been added--one an assessment of postmodernism and television, the other an analysis of convergence and divergence among the essays--and the original essays have been substantially revised and updated with an international audience in mind. Sixty-one new television stills illustrate the text." "Each essay lays out the general tenets of its particular approach, discusses television as an object of analysis within that critical framework, and provides extended examples of the types of analysis produced by that critical approach. Case studies range from Rescue 911 and Twin Peaks to soap operas, music videos, game shows, talk shows, and commercials." "Channels of Discourse, Reassembled suggests new ways of understanding relationships among television programs, between viewing pleasure and narrative structure, and between the world in front of the television set and that represented on the screen. The collection also addresses the qualities of popular television that traditional aesthetics and quantitative media research have failed to treat satisfactorily, including its seriality, mass production, and extraordinary popularity."--Jacket

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"Television criticism: a selective bibliography [by] Diane Negra": pages [387]-405

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Since its original publication in 1987, Channels of Discourse has provided the most comprehensive consideration of commercial television, drawing on insights provided by the major strands of contemporary criticism: semiotics, narrative theory, reception theory, genre theory, ideological analysis, psychoanalysis, feminist criticism, and British cultural studies." "The second edition features a new introduction by Robert Allen that includes a discussion of the political economy of commercial television. Two new essays have been added--one an assessment of postmodernism and television, the other an analysis of convergence and divergence among the essays--and the original essays have been substantially revised and updated with an international audience in mind. Sixty-one new television stills illustrate the text." "Each essay lays out the general tenets of its particular approach, discusses television as an object of analysis within that critical framework, and provides extended examples of the types of analysis produced by that critical approach. Case studies range from Rescue 911 and Twin Peaks to soap operas, music videos, game shows, talk shows, and commercials." "Channels of Discourse, Reassembled suggests new ways of understanding relationships among television programs, between viewing pleasure and narrative structure, and between the world in front of the television set and that represented on the screen. The collection also addresses the qualities of popular television that traditional aesthetics and quantitative media research have failed to treat satisfactorily, including its seriality, mass production, and extraordinary popularity."--Jacket

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