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catalog contributor b1839185.
catalog created "1987.".
catalog date "1987".
catalog date "1987.".
catalog dateCopyrighted "1987.".
catalog description "Bibliography: p. 255-262.".
catalog description "Critical approaches to television. Literary criticism approach ; Semiological-structural approach ; Marxist approach ; Psychoanalytical model ; Sociological analysis -- The television mode. The dramatic mode ; Television as erotica ; News that entertains ; Why is television so amusing? ; Psychology of television watching -- Emerging television technologies and the cultural lag. Satellites ; Cable TV ; Subscription TV ; MDS and SMATV ; Direct broadcast satellite ; Translators, LPTV, etc. ; Videocassettes/disks ; Teletext and videotex ; Cultural lag ; Privacy ; Free speech and the fairness doctrine -- Form and structure of television drama. Screen realism ; Formulaic conventions of television series drama ; Plot and characterization ; Cliffhangers ; Topicality ; Commercial-punctuated action ; "Hill street blues" : the case of recombinant progeny -- Dramatical serial : prime time and daytime. Origin, form and structure ; Structural characteristics ; Inside soap opera today ; Prime-time series and serials ; "Dallas" to "Dynasty" ; "Guiding light" -- Sitcom : the half-hour comedy. A typology of sitcom ; The early phase ; First phase : television sitcoms of traditional families ; Second phase : back-to-nature sitcoms ; Third phase : social problem sitcoms ("M*A*S*H", "The Mary Tyler Moore show", "All in the family") ; Fourth phase : sitcoms which delight and instruct (Bill Cosby : the comic godfather of America) -- The collective as creator. Negotiated creativity ; The role of the producer ; Grant Tinker's MTM ; Norman Lear and the dramatization of resentment -- News and newscasters. Structure of the newscast ; TV news as business, as show business ; Can television be fair?".
catalog description "Television documentary in American culture. Flaherty, Grierson, Vertov ; "March of time" ; Documentary as combat-expose : "see it now" ; Documentary as judgement ; Documentary as an epic ; Massaging the message : "The times of Harvey Milk" ; Minidocumentaries and counter-documentaries ; The nation's conscience keeper -- The poetics and rhetoric of docudrama. The roots of docudrama ; The fear of the genre -- Mini-series : epic in the age of television. The problem of adaption ; The narrative structure of the mini-series ; "The jewel in the crown" and the American audience ; The narrator as an intruder, as a noise ; "The thorn birds" : an epic of sin and suffering in the Vatican backyard -- Television critic as a social prophet. The issues ; Standards and practices of a good critic ; Ideology, idealism and ideal types -- The ways of Nielsen. Television audiences as markets of taste ; Ratings ; What ratings measure and measure not ; Guardians of public taste ; Some facts about American television.".
catalog extent "xvii, 283 p. ;".
catalog hasFormat "Hour of television.".
catalog identifier "0810819899".
catalog isFormatOf "Hour of television.".
catalog issued "1987".
catalog issued "1987.".
catalog language "eng".
catalog publisher "Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press,".
catalog relation "Hour of television.".
catalog subject "791.45/0973 19".
catalog subject "PN1992.5 .B36 1987".
catalog subject "Television broadcasting.".
catalog subject "Television criticism.".
catalog subject "Television programs.".
catalog subject "Television.".
catalog tableOfContents "Critical approaches to television. Literary criticism approach ; Semiological-structural approach ; Marxist approach ; Psychoanalytical model ; Sociological analysis -- The television mode. The dramatic mode ; Television as erotica ; News that entertains ; Why is television so amusing? ; Psychology of television watching -- Emerging television technologies and the cultural lag. Satellites ; Cable TV ; Subscription TV ; MDS and SMATV ; Direct broadcast satellite ; Translators, LPTV, etc. ; Videocassettes/disks ; Teletext and videotex ; Cultural lag ; Privacy ; Free speech and the fairness doctrine -- Form and structure of television drama. Screen realism ; Formulaic conventions of television series drama ; Plot and characterization ; Cliffhangers ; Topicality ; Commercial-punctuated action ; "Hill street blues" : the case of recombinant progeny -- Dramatical serial : prime time and daytime. Origin, form and structure ; Structural characteristics ; Inside soap opera today ; Prime-time series and serials ; "Dallas" to "Dynasty" ; "Guiding light" -- Sitcom : the half-hour comedy. A typology of sitcom ; The early phase ; First phase : television sitcoms of traditional families ; Second phase : back-to-nature sitcoms ; Third phase : social problem sitcoms ("M*A*S*H", "The Mary Tyler Moore show", "All in the family") ; Fourth phase : sitcoms which delight and instruct (Bill Cosby : the comic godfather of America) -- The collective as creator. Negotiated creativity ; The role of the producer ; Grant Tinker's MTM ; Norman Lear and the dramatization of resentment -- News and newscasters. Structure of the newscast ; TV news as business, as show business ; Can television be fair?".
catalog tableOfContents "Television documentary in American culture. Flaherty, Grierson, Vertov ; "March of time" ; Documentary as combat-expose : "see it now" ; Documentary as judgement ; Documentary as an epic ; Massaging the message : "The times of Harvey Milk" ; Minidocumentaries and counter-documentaries ; The nation's conscience keeper -- The poetics and rhetoric of docudrama. The roots of docudrama ; The fear of the genre -- Mini-series : epic in the age of television. The problem of adaption ; The narrative structure of the mini-series ; "The jewel in the crown" and the American audience ; The narrator as an intruder, as a noise ; "The thorn birds" : an epic of sin and suffering in the Vatican backyard -- Television critic as a social prophet. The issues ; Standards and practices of a good critic ; Ideology, idealism and ideal types -- The ways of Nielsen. Television audiences as markets of taste ; Ratings ; What ratings measure and measure not ; Guardians of public taste ; Some facts about American television.".
catalog title "The hour of television : critical approaches / by N.D. Batra.".
catalog type "text".