- 256 pages
- English
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About this book
Genre and Television proposes a new understanding of television genres as cultural categories, offering a set of in-depth historical and critical examinations to explore five key aspects of television genre: history, industry, audience, text, and genre mixing. Drawing on well-known television programs from Dragnet to TheSimpsons, this book provides a new model of genre historiography and illustrates how genres are at work within nearly every facet of television-from policy decisions to production techniques to audience practices. Ultimately, the book argues that through analyzing how television genre operates as a cultural practice, we can better comprehend how television actively shapes our social world.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Genres That Matter
- 1 Television Genres as Cultural Categories
- 2 Before the ScandalsāGenre Historiography and the Cultural History of the Quiz Show
- 3 From Saturday Morning to Around the Clockā The Industrial Practices of Television Cartoons
- 4 Audiences Talk GenresāTalk Shows and the Intersections of Taste and Identity
- 5 Policing GenresāDragnetās Texts and Generic Contexts
- 6 Making Fun of Genresā The Politics of Parody and Genre Mixing in Soap and The Simpsons
- Conclusion Some Reflections on Reality Television
- Notes
- Appendix A Cartoon Networkās Greatest 50 Cartoons, aired 3/20/99
- Appendix B Jerry Beck, The Fifty Greatest Cartoons as Selected by 1,000 Animation Professionals (Atlanta: Turner Publishing, 1994).