Making Television: Authorship and the Production Process (Media and Society Series)
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“This valuable collection includes essays by Horace Newcomb and David Marc. `Authorship' is posited variously in the writer who controls a soap or a sitcom, the studio, the star who takes control, the executive producer, or the networks' methods of exerting control. Four essays are centered on the critical economy success `Frank's Place,' including Moorehouse's overview of the absence of black music in series television. Boyd-Bowman discusses the different production systems of France where auteur theory and nationalism consciously shaped several documentaries. Plasketes analyzes the late-night/prime-time experiences of `outsider' Canadian Lorne Michaels. Together, the essays also supply a useful historical overview of the particulars of the broadcasting climate as well as case studies of individual series and serials, including The Wonder Years, The Prisoner, The Young and the Restless, The Avengers, and Cheyenne. A reader who knew little of the variables behind the cameras that shape television would learn much from this book; those who think those variables make it impossible for an individual sensibility to read through the collective art should be persuaded to reconsider. Useful references.”–
Book Description
This collection of essays on television authorship includes work of some of the most prominent scholars in television studies. Rather than assigning one author to individual television texts, the contributors probe the relationship between the various authors at work within the institutional, cultural, and economic settings that characterize the television industry. The book analyzes and defines the unique methods of television authorship and suggests numerous candidates for authorial accountability allowing the media to enter the realm of contemporary criticism.
Making Television: Authorship and the Production Process (Media and Society Series)
Making Television: Authorship and the Production Process (Media and Society Series),Robert J. Thompson,Gary Burns,Praeger Publishers,0275927466,Communication,Language Arts & Disciplines,Pop Arts / Pop Culture,Production and direction,Reference,Television,Television - General,Television Production,Television authorship,Writing For The Media,Language Arts & Disciplines / Communication
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