Television And The Meaning Of Live

Author : Paddy Scannell
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 1 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745679648

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Television and the Meaning of 'Live' by Paddy Scannell Pdf

This book is about the question of existence, the meaning of ‘life’. It is an enquiry into the contemporary human situation as disclosed by television. The elementary components of any real-world situation are place, people and time. These are first examined as basic existential phenomena drawing on Heidegger’s fundamental enquiry into the human situation in Being and Time. They are then explored through the technological and production care-structures of broadcast television which, routinely and exceptionally, display the situated experience of being alive and living in the world today. It shows routinely in the live self-enactments of persons being themselves and the liveness of their ordinary talk on television. It shows exceptionally in television coverage of great occasions and catastrophes as they unfold live and in real time. Case studies reveal the existential role of television in salvaging the possibility of genuine experience, and in revealing the world-historical character of life today. To explore these questions, the agenda of sociology - its concern with economic, political and cultural life - is set aside. Being in the world is not, in the first (or last) instance, a social but an existential question, as an existential enquiry into television today discovers. Passionate and sweeping in scale, this new book from a leading media scholar is a major contribution to our understanding of the media today.

Author : James Deaville
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781136826351

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Music in Television by James Deaville Pdf

Music in Television is a collection of essays examining television’s production of meaning through music in terms of historical contexts, institutional frameworks, broadcast practices, technologies, and aesthetics. It presents the reader with overviews of major genres and issues, as well as specific case studies of important television programs and events. With contributions from a wide range of scholars, the essays range from historical-analytical surveys of TV sound and genre designations to studies of the music in individual programs, including South Park and Dr. Who.

Author : Ira D. Glick,Sidney J. Levy,W. Lloyd Warner,Kurt Lang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351508384

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Living with Television by Ira D. Glick,Sidney J. Levy,W. Lloyd Warner,Kurt Lang Pdf

This book is based on extensive field research conducted by the investigators of Social Research Inc., interpreting the result of over 13,000 individuals. Members of TV audiences were studied to analyze their reactions to what TV offered them, in relation to their age, sex, social class, and personal characteristics. This information is here applied to understanding what television programs, performers, and commercials--by general type and also with illustrative case histories--are being watched. This book on first publication in 1962 provided the first clear image of the people in front of their TV sets, who they were, how they differed from each other, their views on sex and violence, boredom and enlightenment, taste and judgment. It tells us about the audiences and our stereotypes and their response to the new medium they could both see and hear. It destroys the myth of the "mass audience" and replaces it with a scientifically derived description of the many audiences for television, including its protesters, its embracers, and its accommodators. Programs looked at range from those still in production forty years later--The Price is Right--to those in perpetual rerun--The Twilight Zone---to those genres, like westerns, that have all but disappeared, and those that still prosper, like soap operas--in this case, 77 Sunset Strip. A section on performer images and their symbolic meanings considers television personas from Bob Hope through Walter Cronkite to Roy Rogers and Pat Boone. The final section analyzes commercials both by type and by placement and what audiences feel about them.

Author : Stephanie Marriott
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007-11-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781849202596

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Live Television by Stephanie Marriott Pdf

"The study of television, still the most powerful of modern media, has long been fascinated by its capacity for ′liveness′. Marriott offers an insightful analysis of the complexities of this phenomenon, particularly its increasingly vital connection with the use of new media. A timely contribution to our understanding of media events, 24 hour news and the phenomenology of mediated experience." - Andrew Tolson, De Montfort University "In the steps of Marshall McLuhan and Alfred Schutz, Stephanie Marriott offers us a timely and sustained reflection upon the nature of mediation and the changing qualities of the live experience made possible by television. Elegant, lucid, witty and thought-provoking, her account will become a canonical text in television studies." - Martin Montgomery, University of Strathclyde In a fragmenting multichannel and multiplatform global broadcasting environment live television continues to attract huge audiences, bucking the trend towards narrowcasting and niche markets, yet little of a comprehensive nature has been written about the live television event. In this fascinating book, Stephanie Marriott engages in a close and detailed analysis of the nature of live television. She examines the transformations in our experience of time and space which are brought about by the capacity of broadcasting to bring us the world in the moment in which it is unfolding, situating the live television event in the context of an expanding and increasingly complex global communicative framework. Building her argument by means of a series of case studies of events as diverse as the assassination of President Kennedy in 1963, the attack on the World Trade Centre in 2001, the 2005 London bombings, election night coverage and live sports coverage, Marriott provides a meticulous and articulate account of the way in which live television mediates the event for its audience. This book will be essential reading for students and academics working in media, cultural studies, cultural sociology, and linguistics, and is an exciting new contribution to the field of broadcast talk and media discourse.

Author : Heike Schaefer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108487382

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American Literature and Immediacy by Heike Schaefer Pdf

Demonstrates that the quest for immediacy, or experiences of direct connection and presence, has propelled the development of American literature and media culture.

Author : Jason Mittell
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : STANFORD:36105215297826

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Television and American Culture by Jason Mittell Pdf

Television and American Culture: An Overview introduces students to the study of television by looking at American television from a cultural perspective. The book is written for intermediate undergraduate and beginning graduate students for a range of television studies courses. Specifically, Mittell discusses television within the following contexts: the economics of the television industry, television's role within American democracy, the formal attributes of a variety of television genres, television as a site of gender and racial identity formation, television's role in everyday life, and the medium's technological and social impacts. The topical arrangement and comprehensive scope of the book differs from other television textbooks, arguing that we must incorporate a range of economic, political, aesthetic, and sociological perspectives to fully comprehend the medium of television.

Author : Kit Hughes
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780190855789

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Television at Work by Kit Hughes Pdf

"This book explores how work, television, and waged labor come to have meaning in our everyday lives. However, it is not an analysis of workplace sitcoms or quality dramas. Instead, it explores the forgotten history of how American private sector workplaces used television in the twentieth century. In traces how, at the hands of employers, television physically and psychically managed workers and attempted to make work meaningful under the sign of capitalism. It also shows how the so-called domestic medium helped businesses shape labor relations and information architectures foundational to the twinned rise of the technologically mediated corporation and a globalizing information economy. Among other things, business and industry built extensive private television networks to distribute live and taped programming, leased satellite time for global 'meetings' and program distribution, created complex CCTV data search and retrieval systems, encouraged the use of videotape for worker self-evaluation, used video cassettes for training distributed workforces, and wired cantinas for employee entertainment. Television at work describes the myriad ways the medium served business' attempts to shape employees' relationships to their labor and the workplace in order to secure industrial efficiency, support corporate expansion, and inculcate preferred ideological orientations. narrowcasting, immediacy, time-shifting, flow, Post-Fordism, labor, audience labor, video, satellite, CCTV"--

Author : David Gauntlett,Annette Hill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Television
ISBN : OCLC:754874682

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TV Living by David Gauntlett,Annette Hill Pdf

Author : Stephanie Marriott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Live television programs
ISBN : 0076195910

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Live Television by Stephanie Marriott Pdf

Author : Maren Hartmann,Elizabeth Prommer,Karin Deckner,Stephan O. Görland
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030249502

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Mediated Time by Maren Hartmann,Elizabeth Prommer,Karin Deckner,Stephan O. Görland Pdf

Exploring mediated time, this book contemplates how far (and in what ways) media and time are intertwined from a diverse set of theoretical and empirical angles. It builds from theoretical discussions concerning the question of mediation and the normative framing of time (especially acceleration) and works its way through questions of time for/of one’s own, resisting temporalities, polychronicity, in-between-time, simultaneity and other time concepts. It further examines specific time frames, imaginations of a media future and the past, questions of online journalism and multitasking or liveness. Bringing together authors from diverse backgrounds, this collection presents a rich combination of milestone articles, new empirical research, enriching theoretical work and interviews with leading researchers to bridge sociology, media studies, and science and technology studies in one of the first book-length publications on the emerging field of media and time.

Author : Elihu Katz,Paddy Scannell
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1412978513

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The End of Television? by Elihu Katz,Paddy Scannell Pdf

Is television dead? The classic television era of the 1950s and 1960s, characterized by limited choices of programs broadcast on over the air channels to families as if they were seated around a hearth – and to a nation as if gathered around a campfire – has indeed ended. Throughout the drastic evolution of this media, thousands of studies have examined the short-term effects of television, such as the evaluation of persuasion campaigns. Yet there is scant research on the overreaching sociological impacts of television and its centrality to Western culture over the past 60 years. This compelling volume of The ANNALS is the first collection of rigorous articles devoted to studying ways in which television has impacted our values, ideologies, institutions, social structure, and culture.

Author : Roger Silverstone
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1994-05-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134979684

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Television And Everyday Life by Roger Silverstone Pdf

Television is a central dimension in our everyday lives and yet its meaning and its potency varies according to our individual circumstances, mediated by the social and cultural worlds which we inhabit. In this fascinating book, Roger Silverstone explores the enigma of television and how it has found its way so profoundly and intimately into the fabric of our everyday lives. His investigation, of great significance to those with a personal or professional interest in media, film and television studies, unravels its emotional and cognitive, spatial, temporal and political significance. Drawing on a wide range of literature, from psychoanalysis to sociology and from geography to cultural studies, Silverstone constructs a theory of the medium which locates it centrally within the multiple realities and discourses of everyday life. Television emerges from these arguments as the fascinating, complex and contradictory medium that it is, but in the process many of the myths that surround it are exploded. This outstanding book presents a radical new approach to the medium of television, one that both challenges received wisdoms and offers a compellingly original view of the place of television in everyday life.

Author : John Hartley
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780470693353

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Television Truths by John Hartley Pdf

Television Truths considers what we know about TV, whether we love it or hate it, where TV is going, and whether viewers should bother going along for the ride. This engaging volume, written by one of television's best known scholars, offers a new take on the history of television and an up-to-date analysis of its imaginative content and cultural uses. Explores the pervasive, persuasive, and powerful nature of television: among the most criticized phenomena of modern life, but still the most popular pastime ever Written by John Hartley, one of television’s best known scholars Considers how television reflects and shapes contemporary life across the economic, political, social and cultural spectrum, examining its influence from historical, political and aesthetic perspectives Probes the nature of, and future for, television at a time of unprecedented change in technologies and business plans Provides an up-to-date analysis of content and cultural uses, from the television live event, to its global political influence, through to the concept of the “TV citizen” Maps out a new paradigm for understanding television, for its research and scholarship, and for the very future of the medium itself

Author : Ted Nannicelli
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317555568

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Appreciating the Art of Television by Ted Nannicelli Pdf

Contemporary television has been marked by such exceptional programming that it is now common to hear claims that TV has finally become an art. In Appreciating the Art of Television, Nannicelli contends that televisual art is not a recent development, but has in fact existed for a long time. Yet despite the flourishing of two relevant academic subfields—the philosophy of film and television aesthetics—there is little scholarship on television, in general, as an art form. This book aims to provide scholars active in television aesthetics with a critical overview of the relevant philosophical literature, while also giving philosophers of film a particular account of the art of television that will hopefully spur further interest and debate. It offers the first sustained theoretical examination of what is involved in appreciating television as an art and how this bears on the practical business of television scholars, critics, students, and fans—namely the comprehension, interpretation, and evaluation of specific televisual artworks.

Author : Oranit Klein-Shagrir
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781498540810

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Para-Interactivity and the Appeal of Television in the Digital Age by Oranit Klein-Shagrir Pdf

This book explores television's efforts to remain culturally relevant, socially significant, and commercially viable in a changing media environment. It traces its adaptation to the digital era and television's attempts to appeal to its audience by using televisual strategies to simulate interactivity and viewer participation.