Television Aesthetics and Style
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Television Aesthetics and Style

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Television Aesthetics and Style

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Although Film Studies has successfully (re)turned attention to matters of style and interpretation, its sibling discipline has left the territory uncharted - until now. The question of how television operates on a stylistic level has been critically underexplored, despite being fundamental to our viewing experience. This significant new work redresses a vital gap in Television Studies by engaging with the stylistic dynamics of TV; exploring the aesthetic properties and values of both the medium and particular types of output (specific programmes); and raising important questions about the way we judge television as both cultural artifact and art form.
Television Aesthetics and Style provides a unique and vital intervention in the field, raising key questions about television's artistic properties and possibilities. Through a series of case-studies by internationally renowned scholars, the collection takes a radical step forward in understanding TV's stylistic achievements.

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Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2013
ISBN
9781623569037
Edition
1
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Television History & Criticism

Table of contents

  1. FC
  2. Half title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Contributors
  8. Introduction Jason Jacobs and Steven Peacock
  9. PART ONE Conceptual debates
  10. 1 Television aesthetics: Stylistic analysis and beyond Sarah Cardwell
  11. 2 The qualities of complexity: Vast versus dense seriality in contemporary television Jason Mittell
  12. 3 What does it mean to call television ‘cinematic’? Brett Mills
  13. 4 Rescuing television from ‘the cinematic’: The perils of dismissing television style Deborah L. J
  14. PART TWO Aesthetics and style of television comedy
  15. 5 Why comedy is at home on television Alex Clayton
  16. 6 Situating comedy: Inhabitation and duration in classical American sitcoms SĂ©rgio Dias Branco
  17. 7 Arrested developments: Towards an aesthetic of the contemporary US sitcom Timotheus Vermeulen an
  18. 8 Better or differently: Style and repetition in The Trip James Walters
  19. 9 The presentation of detail and the organisation of time in The Royle Family James Zborowski
  20. 10 The man from ISIS: Archer and the animated aesthetics of adult cartoons Holly Randell-Moon and
  21. PART THREE Critical analyzes of television drama
  22. 11 Don Draper and the promises of life George Toles
  23. 12 Justifying Justified William Rothman
  24. 13 HBO aesthetics, quality television and Boardwalk Empire Janet McCabe
  25. 14 Storytelling in song: Television music, narrative and allusion in The O.C. Faye Woods
  26. 15 Camera and performer: Energetic engagement with The Shield Lucy Fife Donaldson
  27. 16 Flashforwards in Breaking Bad: Openness, closure and possibility Elliott Logan
  28. 17 The fantastic style of Shameless Beth Johnson
  29. PART FOUR Non-fiction and history
  30. 18 ‘Let’s just watch it for a few minutes’: This is Your Life in 1958 Charles Barr
  31. 19 Gaudy nights: Dance and reality television’s display of talent Frances Bonner
  32. 20 Television sublime: The experimental television of Lithuanian CAC TV Linus Andersson
  33. 21 Closer to the action: Post-war American television and the zoom shot Nick Hall
  34. 22 Think-tape: The aesthetics of montage in the post-war television documentary Ieuan Franklin
  35. 23 What FUIs can do: The promises of computing in contemporary television series Cormac Deane
  36. Index