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New television : the aesthetics and politics of a genre / Martin Shuster.
LIBRA PN1992.8.S4 S475 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shuster, Martin, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wire (Television program).
- Weeds (Television program).
- Justified (Television program).
- Television series--United States--History and criticism.
- Television series.
- Families on television.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 263 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- Even though it's frequently asserted that we are living in a golden age of scripted television, the medium is still not taken seriously as an artistic art form, nor has its stigma as "chewing gum for the mind" really disappeared. Philosopher Martin Shuster argues that television is the modern art form par excellence, full of promise and urgency. Through careful analysis of shows including The Wire, Justified, and Weeds, among others, and philosophers such as Stanley Cavell, Hannah Arendt, Martin Heidegger, and John Rawls, Shuster reveals how various contemporary television series engage deeply with aesthetic and philosophical issues in modernity What unifies the artistic and critical ambitions of new television is a commitment to portraying and exploring the family as the last site of political possibility in a world otherwise bereft of other sources of traditional authority; consequently, at the heart of new television are profound political stakes about society, philosophy, and art today. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Worlds on screen: the ontology of television series and/as the ontology of film
- Storytelling and worldhood: the screen and us
- "This America, man": tragic reconciliation, television, and The Wire
- The gangster, boredom, and family: Weeds, natality, and new television
- "Boyd and I dug coal together": Justified, moral perfectionism, and the United States of America
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226503813
- 022650381X
- 9780226503950
- 022650395X
- OCLC:
- 975975846
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