TY - BOOK ID - 77880428 TI - Channels of discourse, reassembled PY - 1992 SN - 0807898872 9780807898871 9780203991329 020399132X 0807820369 9780807820360 0807843741 9780807843741 9780415080583 9781134894383 1134894384 9781134894420 1134894422 9781134894437 1134894430 0415080584 9780415080583 9780415080590 0415080592 9798890878281 PB - Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press DB - UniCat KW - Television criticism. KW - Criticism. KW - Criticism KW - Evaluation of literature KW - Literary criticism KW - Literature KW - Rhetoric KW - Aesthetics KW - Dramatic criticism KW - Technique KW - Evaluation KW - Television criticism KW - #SBIB:309H520 KW - Audiovisuele communicatie: algemene werken KW - Mass communications UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77880428 AB - "Since its original publication in 1987, Channels of Discourse has provided the most comprehensive consideration of commercial television, drawing on insights provided by the major strands of contemporary criticism: semiotics, narrative theory, reception theory, genre theory, ideological analysis, psychoanalysis, feminist criticism, and British cultural studies." "The second edition features a new introduction by Robert Allen that includes a discussion of the political economy of commercial television. Two new essays have been added--one an assessment of postmodernism and television, the other an analysis of convergence and divergence among the essays--and the original essays have been substantially revised and updated with an international audience in mind. Sixty-one new television stills illustrate the text." "Each essay lays out the general tenets of its particular approach, discusses television as an object of analysis within that critical framework, and provides extended examples of the types of analysis produced by that critical approach. Case studies range from Rescue 911 and Twin Peaks to soap operas, music videos, game shows, talk shows, and commercials." "Channels of Discourse, Reassembled suggests new ways of understanding relationships among television programs, between viewing pleasure and narrative structure, and between the world in front of the television set and that represented on the screen. The collection also addresses the qualities of popular television that traditional aesthetics and quantitative media research have failed to treat satisfactorily, including its seriality, mass production, and extraordinary popularity."--Jacket ER -