The Television Reader

PREFACE; INTRODUCTION: MAKING CRITICAL TV STUDIES 'VISIBLE'; PART I: THEORIZING TELEVISION; 1. Critical Approaches to the Study of 'TV': An Introduction; TANNER MIRRLEES AND JOSEPH KISPAL-KOVACS; DISCUSSION QUESTIONS AND SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING; PART II: HISTORY AND CHARACTERISTICS OF TV BROADCASTING IN CANADA AND THE US: POLITICAL ECONOMY; 2. The Radio Act of 1927: Progressive Ideology, Epistemology, and Praxis. Mark Goodman and Mark Gring; 3. Women's Work. Lynn Spigel; 4. Canada. Marc Raboy; 5. A Usable History for the Study of Television. Paul Attallah; DISCUSSION QUESTIONS AND SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING; PART III: TV GENRE: CONTEXTS AND TEXTUAL ANALYSIS; 1. SIT-COMS; 6. From Trailer Trash to Trailer Park Boys. Dean Defino; 7. Little Mosque on the Prairie: Examining Multicultural Spaces of Nation and Religion. Sandra Canas; 2. SCIENCE FICTION; 8. Downloading Doppelgangers: New Media Anxieties and Transnational Ironies in Battlestar Galactica. Mark McCutcheon; 3. COP/CRIME SHOWS; 9. CSI and Moral Authority: The Police and Science. Gray Cavender and Sarah K. Deutsch; 10. Rewriting Baltimore. Marsha Kinder; 4. REALITY-TV; 11. Making the Most of 15 Minutes: Reality TV's Dispensable Celebrity. Sue Collins; 12. Reality TV Formats: The Case of Canadian Idol. Doris Baltruschat; 5. NEWS PRODUCTION AND NEWS PARODY; 13. Laughing at Authority or Authorizing Laughter?. Zoe Druick; 14. The Daily Show: Discursive Integration and Reinvention of Political Journalism. Geoffrey Baym; 6. TV WAR; 15. Entertainment Wars: Television Culture after 9/11. Lynn Spigel; 16. Interrogating 24: Making Sense of US Counterterrorism in the Global War on Terrorism. Elspeth Van Veeren; 7. TV SPORTS; 17. 'Get the Puck Outta Here!': Media Transnationalism and Canadian Identity. Daniel Mason; 18. Some Notes on Televised Team Sports in North America. Joseph Kispal-Kovacs; DISCUSSION QUESTIONS AND SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING; PART IV: EMERGING TRENDS IN TV STUDIES: INTERACTIVE AUDIENCES, ADVERTISING, GLOBALIZATION, AND POST-NETWORK TV; 1. TV'S INTERACTIVE AUDIENCE AND ADVERTISING; 19. Understanding How the Popular Becomes Popular: The Role of Political Economy in the Study of Popular Communication. Eileen R. Meehan; 20. YouTube: Where Cultural Memory and Copyright Converge. Lucas Hilderbrand; 21. Watching Television without Pity: The Productivity of Online Fans. Mark Andrejevic; 22. The Commodity Flow of U.S. Children's Television. Matthew P. McAllister and J. Matt Giglio; 2. GLOBAL TV: MEDIA IMPERIALISM AND MEDIA GLOBALIZATION; 23. McTV: Understanding the Global Popularity of Television Formats. Silvio Waisbord; 24. National Television, Global Market: Canada's Degrassi: The Next Generation. Elana Levine; 25. Imagining America: The Simpsons Go Global. Jonathan Gray; 26. Walking a Tightrope: The Global Cultural Economy of Canadian Television. Serra Tinic; 3. POST-NETWORK TV; 27. The Future of Television: Revolution Paused, Media Conglomeration ContinuedTanner Mirrlees; DISCUSSION QUESTIONS AND SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING; GLOSSARY