{"product_id":"9781978816039-televisuality","title":"Televisuality: Style, Crisis, and Authority in American Television (Communications, Media, and Culture Series","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eStyle, Crisis, and Authority in American Television\u003cbr\u003eAlthough the \"\"decline\"\" of network television in the face of cable programming was an institutional crisis of television history, John Caldwell's classic volume \u003cem\u003eTelevisuality\u003c\/em\u003e reveals that this decline spawned a flurry of new production initiatives to reassert network authority.\u003cbr\u003eAlthough the \"decline\" of network television in the face of cable programming was an institutional crisis of television history, John Caldwell's classic volume \u003ci\u003eTelevisuality\u003c\/i\u003e reveals that this decline spawned a flurry of new production initiatives to reassert network authority. Television in the 1980s hyped an extensive array of exhibitionist practices to raise the prime-time marquee above the multi-channel flow. \u003ci\u003eTelevisuality\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates the cultural logic of stylistic exhibitionism in everything from prestige series (\u003ci\u003eNorthern Exposure\u003c\/i\u003e) and \"loss-leader\" event-status programming (\u003ci\u003eWar and Remembrance\u003c\/i\u003e) to lower \"trash\" and \"tabloid\" forms (\u003ci\u003ePee-Wee's Playhouse\u003c\/i\u003e and reality TV). Caldwell shows how \"import-auteurs\" like Oliver Stone and David Lynch were stylized for prime time as videographics packaged and tamed crisis news coverage. By drawing on production experience and critical and cultural analysis, and by tying technologies to aesthetics and ideology, \u003ci\u003eTelevisuality \u003c\/i\u003eis a powerful call for desegregation of theory and practice in media scholarship and an end to the willful blindness of \"high theory.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55420816818550,"sku":"9781978816039","price":31.16,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_33646902.jpg?v=1748575838","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781978816039-televisuality","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}