Television aesthetics and style
"Although Film Studies has successfully (re)turned attention to matters of style and interpretation, its sibling discipline has left the territory uncharted - until now. The question of how television operates on a stylistic level has been critically underexplored, despite being…
Television aesthetics and style
Although Film Studies has successfully (re)turned attention to matters of style and interpretation, its sibling discipline has left the territory uncharted - until now. The question of how television operates on a stylistic level has been critically underexplored, despite being …
Television aesthetics and style
This significant new work redresses a vital gap in TV studies by engaging with the stylistic dynamics of TV; exploring the aesthetic properties and values of both the medium and particular types of output (specific programmes); and raising important questions about the way we ju…
Introduction: dare we look closely at television? -- Television and zerodegree style -- Stylistic crossover in the network era: from film to television -- the persuasive power of style -- Style in an age of media convergence -- Televisuality and the resurrection of the sitcom in…
"Style matters. Television relies on style - setting, lighting, videography, editing, and so on - to set moods, hail viewers, construct meanings, build narratives, sell products, and shape information. Yet, to date, style has been the most understudied aspect of the medium. In t…
"Style matters. Television relies on style - setting, lighting, videography, editing, and so on - to set moods, hail viewers, construct meanings, build narratives, sell products, and shape information. Yet, to date, style has been the most understudied aspect of the medium. In t…
Offers an introduction to television style. This book makes an essential reading at a moment when the medium is undergoing radical transformation, perhaps even a stylistic renaissance.
The Aesthetics of Nostalgia TV explores the aesthetic politics of nostalgia for 1950s and 60s America on contemporary television. Specifically, it looks at how nostalgic TV production design shapes and is shaped by larger historical discourses on gender and technological change,…
Questions of taste: classification, value, legitimation, and Distinction --Cultural institutions and taste formation: Nelson Carro and the Cineteca in 2010 -- Commonplace and routine: Amat Escalante's extreme realism in Los bastardos (2008) and Heli (2013) -- Re-versioning and t…
"Considers how and why taste persists in the analysis of Mexican film and television by looking at key figures and their impact on the curation of violence"--
"Considers how and why taste persists in the analysis of Mexican film and television by looking at key figures and their impact on the curation of violence"--