After the break : television theory today / edited by Marijke de Valck and Jan Teurlings.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Valck, Marijke.

Contributor:

Valck, Marijke de, editor.

Teurlings, Jan, editor.

Series:

Televisual culture.

Televisual culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Television broadcasting.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (202 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

2025.

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English.

Summary:

Television is evolving rapidly. How, then, might we respond to television today in light of its past? And do the old theoretical concepts still apply, or must we invent a new framework for this mutable medium? To answer these fundamental questions, the contributors to this provocative collection examine diverse case studies, including up-to-date scholarship on the current television zeitgeist, nostalgic programming on broadcast television, YouTube, and public television art programming of the 1980s. As a whole, these essays challenge the supposed crisis in television in the light of its burgeoning development.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

After the Break. Television Theory Today / de Valck, Marijke / Teurlings, Jan

Part I: Questioning the crisis

'Unreading' contemporary television / Schwaab, Herbert

Caught. Critical versus everyday perspectives on television / Hermes, Joke

The persistence of national TV. Language and cultural proximity in Flemish fiction / Dhoest, Alexander

Constructing television. Thirty years that froze an otherwise dynamic medium / Uricchio, William

When old media never stopped being new. Television's history as an ongoing experiment / Keilbach, Judith / Stauff, Markus

Part II: New paradigms

Unblackboxing production. What media studies can learn from actor-network theory / Teurlings, Jan

Convergence thinking, information theory and labour in 'end of television' studies / Hayward, Mark

Television memory after the end of television history? / Francisco, Juan / Lozano, Gutiérrez

Part III: New concepts

YouTube beyond technology and cultural form / van Dijck, José

Move along folks, just move along, there's nothing to see. Transience, televisuality and the paradox of anamorphosis / Bouman, Margot

Barry Chappell's Fine Art Showcase. Apparitional TV, aesthetic value, and the art market / White, Mimi

About the authors

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 Dec 2020).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

ISBN:

1-003-69055-6

1-04-079141-7

90-485-1867-9

9781003690559

OCLC:

859582159