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ISBN-13 :  9781483377698

Author:  Victoria O’Donnell 

Television Criticism, Third Edition by Victoria O’Donnell provides a foundational approach to the nature of television criticism. Rhetorical studies, cultural studies, representation, narrative theories, and postmodernism are established for greater understanding and appreciation of the critical perspectives on television. Illustrated with contemporary examples, this updated Third Edition includes a new, extensive sample critical analysis of The Big Bang Theory and reflects recent changes in the ways television is viewed across multiple devices and the impact of the Internet on television.

Television Criticism 3rd table of contents:

PART I: ORIENTATION
1 The Work of the Critic
Introduction
The Ends of Criticism
Journalistic Television Criticism
The Critical Stance
Criticism and Culture
Narrative and Contextual Reality
Critical Categories and Critical Choices
The Familiar and the Unfamiliar in Television
Critical Orientation
Summary
Exercises
Suggested Readings
2 Demystifying the Business of Television
Introduction
The Impact of the Internet and the Role of Advertising, Schedules, and Ratings
The Impact of the Internet
Advertising
The Strategies of Television Advertising
Product Promotion Within Television Programs
Product Placement
Scheduling and Advertising
Noncommercial Channels
Ratings
Categories of Ratings
Demographics
Public Television and Ratings
Ratings and the Cost of Advertising
The Sweeps
Why Television Shows Get Renewed or Canceled
Ratings in the Summer
The Production of a Television Show
Production Houses
Pilots and the “Pitch”
The Production Team
The Producer
Writers
The Writer’s Treatment
Directors
Casting
Putting a Show Into Production
Sets
Summary
Exercises
Suggested Readings
PART II: FORMAL ASPECTS OF TELEVISION
3 Production Techniques and Television Style
Introduction
Length of Shot and Framing
Multi-Camera Production
Reaction Shots
Lighting
Production on Film Versus Digital Video
Style, Reception, and Digital Video Practices
Camera Choice Follows Function
Television Sound and Editing
Production Styles
Art Direction
The Split Screen
Directors
Actors
Summary
Exercises
Suggested Readings
4 Television, the Nation’s Storyteller
Introduction
Storytelling and the Human Condition
The Nature of Narrative
Narrative Theories
Aristotle’s Narrative Theory
Propp’s Narrative Theory
Barthes’s Narrative Theory
Fairy Tales
Narrative Structure
Intertextuality
Characters
Archetypes
Myth
Summary
Exercises
Suggested Readings
5 Television Genres
Introduction
Television Genre, Production, and Scheduling
The Rules for Classifying Genres
Genre and Television Criticism
Comedy
Situation Comedy
Animated Situation Comedy
Variety Comedy
Talk Shows
Nighttime Talk Shows
Daytime Talk Shows
Information Talk Shows
News
National and World News
Local News
News-Talk
24-Hour News
Magazine Shows
News-Talk-Entertainment
Investigative or Public Affairs
Celebrity News
Drama
Crime Shows (Detective, Police, FBI, and Forensic Science)
Workplace Drama
Family Drama
Hybrid Drama
Teleplays and Telefilms
Docudrama
Soap Opera
Science Fiction
Reality Shows
Sports
Children’s Television
Game Shows
Other Genres
Summary
Exercises
Suggested Readings
PART III: THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO TELEVISION CRITICISM
6 Rhetoric and Culture
Introduction
Rhetoric
Classical Rhetoric
Rhetoric Through the Ages
Intentionality
The Symbolic Nature of Rhetoric
The Rhetoric of Kenneth Burke
Television Rhetoric
Rhetoric and Values
Cultural Studies
British Cultural Studies
Power, Ideology, and Hegemony
Hall’s Encoding/Decoding Model
The Codes of Television Production
Decoding and Pleasure
Summary
Exercises
Suggested Readings in Rhetoric
Suggested Readings in Cultural Studies
7 Representation and Its Audience
Introduction
What Is Representation?
Television Representation
Interpreting Representation
Reception of Televisual Images
Symbols
The Illusion of Reality
The Need for Images
Representation of the “Other”
Advice for Television Critics
Representation and Collective Memory
Summary
Exercises
Suggested Readings
8 Postmodernism
Introduction
Postmodernism Defined
Postmodern Television
The Influence of MTV
MTV Reinvented
Postmodern Theories
Summary
Exercises
Suggested Readings
PART IV: CRITICAL APPLICATIONS
9 Guidelines for Television Criticism
Introduction
Critical Orientation
Story and Genre
Organization
Opening Segment
The Structure of the Program
Demographics
Context
The Look of the Program and Its Codes
Analysis
Judgment
Writing Television Criticism
Summary
10 Sample Criticism of a Television Program: The Big Bang Theory—Season 8, Episode 824, “The Commitment Determination”
Introduction
Thesis
Purpose
Description of The Big Bang Theory
Production Information
Description of the Episode
Questions for Analysis
Analysis and Interpretation
Structure
Story, Substance, Characters, and Representation
Demographics and Viewer Involvement

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