Television Culture
eBook - ePub

Television Culture

  1. 424 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Television Culture

About this book

This revised edition of a now classic text includes a new introduction by Henry Jenkins, explaining 'Why Fiske Still Matters' for today's students, followed by a discussion between former Fiske students Ron Becker, Aniko Bodroghkozy, Steve Classen, Elana Levine, Jason Mittell, Greg Smith and Pam Wilson on 'John Fiske and Television Culture'. Both underline the continuing relevance of this foundational text in the study of contemporary media and popular culture.

Television is unique in its ability to produce so much pleasure and so many meanings for such a wide variety of people. In this book, John Fiske looks at television's role as an agent of popular culture, and goes on to consider the relationship between this cultural dimension and television's status as a commodity of the cultural industries that are deeply inscribed with capitalism. He makes use of detailed textual analysis and audience studies to show how television is absorbed into social experience, and thus made into popular culture. Audiences, Fiske argues, are productive, discriminating, and televisually literate.

Television Culture provides a comprehensive introduction for students to an integral topic on all communication and media studies courses.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Also re-issued by Routledge:
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  8. WHY FISKE STILL MATTERS
  9. JOHN FISKE AND TELEVISION CULTURE
  10. NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
  11. 1 Some television, some topics, and some terminology
  12. 2 Realism
  13. 3 Realism and ideology
  14. 4 Subjectivity and address
  15. 5 Active audiences
  16. 6 Activated texts
  17. 7 Intertextuality
  18. 8 Narrative
  19. 9 Character reading
  20. 10 Gendered television: femininity
  21. 11 Gendered television: masculinity
  22. 12 Pleasure and play
  23. 13 Carnival and style
  24. 14 Quizzical pleasures
  25. 15 News readings, news readers
  26. 16 Conclusion: the popular economy
  27. REFERENCES
  28. NAME INDEX
  29. SUBJECT INDEX