Critical Approaches to Television (2nd Edition)

Critical Approaches to Television (2nd Edition)

<p style="margin: 0px;"> <b> I. Theoretical and Critical Foundations</b> </p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> </p> <blockquote> <p style="margin: 0px;"> <b>1. The Context for Criticism: Television and Society</b> </p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> <b>2. Foundations of Television Criticism</b> </p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> <b>3. Critical Approaches to Television Discourse: An Overview</b> </p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> <b>4. Writing Television Criticism</b> </p> </blockquote> <p style="margin: 0px;"> </p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> <b>II. Text-Centered Critical Approaches</b> </p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> </p> <blockquote> <p style="margin: 0px;"> <b>5. Semiotic/Structural Criticism</b> </p> <p style="margin: 0px;">A Sample Study: John Fiske's "Popularity and Ideology: A Structuralist Reading of <i>Dr. Who</i>" </p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> <b>6. Genre Criticism</b> </p> <p style="margin: 0px;">A Sample Study: Matthew P. McAllister's "Recombinant Television Genres and <i>Doogie Howser, M.D.</i>" </p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> <b>7. Rhetorical Criticism</b> </p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Two Sample Studies: Bonnie Dow's "<i>Murphy Brown</i>: Postfeminism Personified"; Sarah R. Stein's, "The 1984 Macintosh Ad: Cinematic Icons and Constitutive Rhetoric in the Launch of a New Machine" </p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> <b>8. Narrative Criticism</b> </p> <p style="margin: 0px;">A Sample Study: Bruce E. Gronbeck's "The Visual and Narrative Rhetoric of Redemption: American Culture Responds to 9/11"</p> </blockquote> <p style="margin: 0px;"> </p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> <b>III. Producer-Centered Approaches</b> </p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> </p> <blockquote> <p style="margin: 0px;"> <b>9. Auteur Criticism</b> </p> <p style="margin: 0px;">A Sample Study: Richard Campbell and Jimme L. Reeves's "Television Authors: The Case of Hugh Wilson" </p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> <b>10. Production Context Criticism</b> </p> <p style="margin: 0px;">A Sample Study: Elana Levine's "Toward a Paradigm for Media Production Research: Behind the Scenes at <i>General</i> <i> Hospital</i>" </p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> <b>11. Ideological Criticism</b> </p> <p style="margin: 0px;">A Sample Study: Mark P. Orbe's "Constructions of Reality on MTV's <i>The Real World:</i> An Analysis of the Restrictive Coding of Black Masculinity"</p> </blockquote> <p style="margin: 0px;"> </p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> <b>IV. Reception-Centered Approaches</b> </p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> </p> <blockquote> <p style="margin: 0px;"> <b>12. Reader-Oriented Criticism</b> </p> <p style="margin: 0px;">A Sample Study: Lawrence A. Wenner's "The Dream Team, Communicative Dirt, and the Marketing of Synergy: USA Basketball and Cross-Merchandising in Television Commercials" </p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> <b>13. Audience Ethnographic Criticism</b> </p> <p style="margin: 0px;">A Sample Study: Rona Tamiko Halualani and Leah R. Vande Berg's "'Asian or American': Meanings In, Through, and Around <i>All-American Girl</i>" </p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> <b>14. Cultural Criticism: General Approaches</b> </p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Two Sample Studies: Heather L. Hundley's "The Naturalization of Beer in <i>Cheers</i>; Cathy Sandeen's "Success Defined by Television: The Value System Promoted by <i>PM Magazine</i>" </p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> <b>15. Cultural Criticism: Mythic, Feminist, and Psychoanalytic Approaches</b> </p> <p style="margin: 0px;">Three Sample Studies: Susan Owen's "Vampires, Postmodernity and Postfeminism: <i>Buffy the Vampire Slayer</i>"; Robert Westerfelhaus and Teresa A. Combs's "Criminal Investigations and Spiritual Quests: The <i>X-Files</i> as an Example of Hegemonic Concordance in Mass-Mediated Society"; Sonia Livingstone and Tamar Liebes's "Where Have All the Mothers Gone? Soap Opera's Replaying of the Oedipal Story"</p> </blockquote> <p style="margin: 0px;"> </p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> <b>V. Ethics and the Critical Approach</b> </p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> <b> <blockquote>16. Television, Ethics, and Criticism</blockquote> </b> </p>