Televisuality |
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| Author:
| Caldwell, John T. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8135-2164-0 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 1995 |
| Publisher: | Rutgers University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $50.00 |
Book Description:
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The collision of auteurism and rap--couched by primetime producers in the
Northern Exposure script--was actually rather commonplace by the early 1990s. Series, and even news broadcasts, regularly engineered their narratives around highly coded aesthetic and cultural fragments, with a kind of ensemble iconography.
Televisuality interrogates the nature of such performances as an historical phenomenon, an aesthetic and industrial practice, and...
More Description The collision of auteurism and rap--couched by primetime producers in the Northern Exposure script--was actually rather commonplace by the early 1990s. Series, and even news broadcasts, regularly engineered their narratives around highly coded aesthetic and cultural fragments, with a kind of ensemble iconography. Televisuality interrogates the nature of such performances as an historical phenomenon, an aesthetic and industrial practice, and as a socially symbolic act.