After the Break: Television Theory Today

doi:10.1017/9789048518678

After the Break

Television Theory Today

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.

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After the Break

Television Theory Today

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Frontmatter
pp 1-4

Contents
pp 5-6

After the Break: Television Theory Today
pp 7-18

Part I - Questioning the Crisis
pp 19-20

‘Unreading’ Contemporary Television
pp 21-34

Caught: Critical Versus Everyday Perspectives on Television
pp 35-50

The Persistence of National TV: Language and Cultural Proximity in Flemish Fiction
pp 51-64

Constructing Television: Thirty Years that Froze an Otherwise Dynamic Medium
pp 65-78

When old Media Never Stopped Being new: Television’s History as an Ongoing Experiment
pp 79-98

Part II - New Paradigms
pp 99-100

Unblackboxing Production: What Media Studies Can Learn from Actor-Network Theory
pp 101-116

Convergence Thinking, Information Theory and Labour in ‘end of Television’ Studies
pp 117-130

Television Memory After the end of Television History?
pp 131-144

Part III - New Concepts
pp 145-146

YouTube Beyond Technology and Cultural form
pp 147-160

Move Along Folks, Just Move Along, there’s nothing to see: Transience, Televisuality and the Paradox of anamorphosis
pp 161-178

Barry Chappell’s Fine Art Showcase: Apparitional TV, Aesthetic Value, and the art Market
pp 179-192

About the Authors
pp 193-196

Index
pp 197-202

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