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TV's American Dream

Name: TV's American Dream
ISBN: 9781501389672

US Television after the Great Recession

Barbara Selznick,

216 pages
English
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eBook - ePub

TV's American Dream

US Television after the Great Recession

Barbara Selznick,

About this book

TV's American Dream examines how the U.S. television industry in the 2010s pursued audiences whose ideas about hope, fairness, work, and economic class were shaped by the Great Recession. While Americans navigated the trauma of the economic meltdown, the television industry faced growing pressure stemming from new program distribution and viewing methods, increasingly fragmented audiences, shifts in methods of advertising, and regulatory changes. To cut through the clutter of television content to appeal to elusive viewers, television programming reimagined some of the traditional representations of the American Dream and continued to bolster others. Exploring shows on different platforms from legacy networks to Netflix, Selznick takes a deep dive into representations of the American Dream on television. Each chapter of this book focuses on a particular strategy mobilized in the second decade of the new century to speak to audiences about their expectations for and concerns about the Dream. Bringing together research on industrial practices with an examination of sociocultural context, TV's American Dream d emonstrates how interconnected forces give rise to the television programs that reinforce and redefine audiences' ideas about the world in which they live.

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