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Author Wagner, Jon.

Title Television at the movies : cinematic and critical approaches to American broadcasting / Jon Nelson Wagner and Tracy Biga MacLean.

Publication Info. New York : Continuum, 2008.

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 223 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-223).
Includes filmography: pages 201-207.
Contents Chapter One: Introduction; Chapter Two: Elegy; Chapter Three: Paranoia; Chapter Four: New Flesh; Chapter Five: The Vidiot; Chapter Six: Apocalypse; Chapter Seven: Nostalgia; Chapter Eight: Feminization; Chapter Nine: Noir Fatal; Chapter Ten: Seriality; Chapter Eleven: Is There an Audience in the House?
Summary The€overview of television criticism, which this book provides, comes appropriately at a moment of change. Television is becoming dramatically different as a result of new and€developing€technologies such as cable, HDTV, satellite transmission and broadband distributions. By concentrating on the still-dominant notion of television, what the authors call "Classical Network Television," they argue that it is as important to understand this model as it is to understand Classical Hollywood Cinema. The€co-authors have a unique approach to the study of television, viewing its hi.
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Subject Motion pictures and television.
Motion pictures and television.
Television in motion pictures.
Television in motion pictures.
Chronological Term Geschichte 1950-2000
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author MacLean, Tracy Biga.
Other Form: Print version: Wagner, Jon Nelson. Television at the movies. New York : Continuum, 2008 9780826429629 (DLC) 2008000798 (OCoLC)190843389
ISBN 9781441179401 (electronic book)
1441179402 (electronic book)
9780826429629
0826429629
9780826429636
0826429637