Relocating Television

Relocating Television
Author: Jostein Gripsrud
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2012-07-26
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1136968970

For over half a century, television has been the most central medium in Western democracies – the political, social and cultural centrepiece of the public sphere. Television has therefore rarely been studied in isolation from its socio-cultural and political context; there is always something important at stake when the forms and functions of television are on the agenda. The digitisation of television concerns the production, contents, distribution and reception of the medium, but also its position in the overall, largely digitised media system and public sphere where the internet plays a decisive role. The articles in this comprehensive collection are written by some of the world’s most prominent scholars in the field of media, communication and cultural studies, including critical film and television studies. Relocating Television offers readers an insight into studying television alongside the internet, participatory media and other technocultural phenomena such as DVDs, user-generated content and everyday digital media production. It also focuses on more specific programmes and phenomena, including The Wire, MSN, amateur footage in TV news, Bollywoodization of TV news, YouTube, fan sites tied to e.g. Grey's Anatomy and X Factor. Relocating Television will be highly beneficial to both students and academics across a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses including media, communication and cultural studies, and television and film studies.

Netflix and the Re-invention of Television

Netflix and the Re-invention of Television
Author: Mareike Jenner
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2018-07-24
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 3319943162

This book deals with the various ways Netflix reconceptualises television as part of the process of TV IV. As television continues to undergo a myriad of significant changes, Netflix has proven itself to be the dominant force in this development, simultaneously driving a number of these changes and challenging television’s existing institutional structures. This comprehensive study explores the pre-history of Netflix, the role of binge-watching in its organisation and marketing, and Netflix’s position as a transnational broadcaster. It also examines different concepts of control and the role these play in the history of ancillary technologies, from the remote control to binge-watching as Netflix’s iteration of giving control to the viewers. By focusing on Netflix’s relationship with the linear television schedule, its negotiations of quality and marketing, as well as the way Netflix integrates into national media systems, Netflix and the Re-invention of Television illuminates the importance of Netflix’s role within the processes of TV IV.

TV Female Foursomes and Their Fans

TV Female Foursomes and Their Fans
Author: Wendy A. Burns-Ardolino
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2015-11-26
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1476622329

The Golden Girls, Designing Women, Living Single, Sex and the City, Girlfriends, Cashmere Mafia and Hot in Cleveland stand out as some of America's favorite television series. Their lovable "female foursome" characters engage in witty banter as they challenge American stereotypes about sex, love, family, work and community. These sitcoms and comedy-dramas live on as cable TV re-runs and through online fan communities, demonstrating mass appeal across generations of women and men. Connecting fan commentary with analysis by television scholars, this book explores the development of these series from the 1980s on, with a focus on the role of fan cultures in "reproducing" these popular American shows.

Screen Distribution and the New King Kongs of the Online World

Screen Distribution and the New King Kongs of the Online World
Author: Stuart Cunningham
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2013-07-19
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 113732645X

Drawing on comparisons with historical shake-ups in the film industry, Screen Distribution Post-Hollywood offers a timely account of the changes brought about in global online distribution of film and television by major new players such as Google/YouTube, Apple, Amazon, Yahoo!, Facebook, Netflix and Hulu.

From Media Systems to Media Cultures

From Media Systems to Media Cultures
Author: Sabina Mihelj
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2018-08-23
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1108422608

Proposes an original framework for comparative media research, and uses it to provide fascinating insights into television under communist rule.

Ephemeral Media

Ephemeral Media
Author: Paul Grainge
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2019-07-25
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1838715568

Ephemeral Media explores the practices, strategies and textual forms helping producers negotiate a fast-paced mediascape. Examining dynamics of brevity and evanescence in the television and new media environment, this book provides a new perspective on the transitory, and transitional, nature of screen culture in the early twenty-first century.

Media, Place and Mobility

Media, Place and Mobility
Author: Shaun Moores
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2017-09-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0230360122

Media, Place and Mobility offers a new understanding of media uses as place-making practices in everyday living.

FCC Record

FCC Record
Author: United States. Federal Communications Commission
Publisher:
Total Pages: 898
Release: 2012
Genre: Telecommunication
ISBN:

True Blood

True Blood
Author: Brigid Cherry
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2012-08-17
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0857732943

As seen in HBO's "True Blood", vampires have never been more edgy, gory or sexy. Since its arrival on screen in 2008, Alan Ball's adaptation of "The Southern Vampire Mysteries" by Charlaine Harris has exploited the creative freedoms of the HBO brand and captured a cult audience with its passionate, blood-drenched visuals and stories. From viral webisodes depicting vampires announcing themselves on TV to the steamy title sequence and the show's uninhibited use of language, sex and gore, "True Blood" has quickly gained status as cult TV with bite. "True Blood" posed the question of what would happen if vampires 'came out of the coffin' and this book considers the representations of sexuality, race and class in a series that engages directly with prejudice and civil rights. It also considers "True Blood's" generic roots in television horror, paranormal romance and Southern Gothic, the wider contexts of fairy tales and religion, the marketing of the series and the activities of its fans. Written for students, scholars and fans, "True Blood: Investigating Vampires and Southern Gothic" explores the hidden depths of "True Blood's" vampire bars, small town communities and haunted bayous.

DVD, Blu-ray and Beyond

DVD, Blu-ray and Beyond
Author: Jonathan Wroot
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2017-11-03
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 3319627589

This book demonstrates, in contrast to statistics that show declining consumption of physical formats, that there has not been a mass shift towards purely digital media. Physical releases such as special editions, DVD box-sets and Blu-Rays are frequently promoted and sought out by consumers. And that past formats such as VHS, Laserdisc and HD-DVD make for sought-after collectible items. These trends are also found within particular genres and niche categories, such as documentary, education and independent film distribution. Through its case studies, this collection makes a distinctive and significant intervention in highlighting the ways in which the film industry has responded to rapidly changing markets. This volume, global in scope, will prove useful to those studying the distribution and exhibition of films, and the economics of the film industry around the world.