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Legitimating Television: Media Convergence and Cultural Status 1st Edition
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Legitimating Television: Media Convergence and Cultural Status explores how and why television is gaining a new level of cultural respectability in the 21st century. Once looked down upon as a "plug-in drug" offering little redeeming social or artistic value, television is now said to be in a creative renaissance, with critics hailing the rise of Quality series such as Mad Men and 30 Rock. Likewise, DVDs and DVRs, web video, HDTV, and mobile devices have shifted the longstanding conception of television as a household appliance toward a new understanding of TV as a sophisticated, high-tech gadget.
Newman and Levine argue that television’s growing prestige emerges alongside the convergence of media at technological, industrial, and experiential levels. Television is permitted to rise in respectability once it is connected to more highly valued media and audiences. Legitimation works by denigrating "ordinary" television associated with the past, distancing the television of the present from the feminized and mass audiences assumed to be inherent to the "old" TV. It is no coincidence that the most validated programming and technologies of the convergence era are associated with a more privileged viewership. The legitimation of television articulates the medium with the masculine over the feminine, the elite over the mass, reinforcing cultural hierarchies that have long perpetuated inequalities of gender and class.
Legitimating Television urges readers to move beyond the question of taste―whether TV is "good" or "bad"―and to focus instead on the cultural, political, and economic issues at stake in television’s transformation in the digital age.
- ISBN-100415880254
- ISBN-13978-0415880251
- Edition1st
- PublisherRoutledge
- Publication dateSeptember 8, 2011
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions6.25 x 0.5 x 9 inches
- Print length230 pages
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"Trenchantly, Michael Newman and Elana Levine observe that every new attempt to declare some form of television as especially valuable culturally or artistically 'is predicated on the systematic degradation of old television practices' and they demonstrate this insight through sharp history combined with comprehensive analysis of the contemporary context. Most refreshing in this respect is their self-aware sense of TV studies' own contribution to processes of legitimation. A rich, far-reaching study of the values we've given to TV across its complicated history." ―Dana Polan, Professor of Cinema Studies, New York University
"Legitimating Television offers a crucial intervention in the popular and scholarly conception of television's increasing cultural significance. ... As a teaching tool, Newman and Levine's engaging and clear style make Legitimating Television suitable for both the graduate and undergraduate classroom, especially as a counterpoint to popular or scholarly sources that regard the increased cultural status of contemporary television in a more favorable light." ―Melinda E. S. Kohnen, New York University
"Legitimating Television offers a crucial intervention in the popular and scholarly conception of television's increasing cultural significance. ... As a teaching tool, Newman and Levine's engaging and clear style make Legitimating Television suitable for both the graduate and undergraduate classroom, especially as a counterpoint to popular or scholarly sources that regard the increased cultural status of contemporary television in a more favorable light." ―Melinda E. S. Kohnen, New York University
"Trenchantly, Michael Newman and Elana Levine observe that every new attempt to declare some form of television as especially valuable culturally or artistically 'is predicated on the systematic degradation of old television practices' and they demonstrate this insight through sharp history combined with comprehensive analysis of the contemporary context. Most refreshing in this respect is their self-aware sense of TV studies' own contribution to processes of legitimation. A rich, far-reaching study of the values we've given to TV across its complicated history." ―Dana Polan, Professor of Cinema Studies, New York University
About the Author
Michael Z. Newman is an assistant professor in the Department of Journalism, Advertising, and Media Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the author of Indie: An American Film Culture.
Elana Levine is an associate professor in the Department of Journalism, Advertising, and Media Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the author of Wallowing in Sex: The New Sexual Culture of 1970s American Television and co-editor of Undead TV: Essays on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
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- Publisher : Routledge; 1st edition (September 8, 2011)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 230 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0415880254
- ISBN-13 : 978-0415880251
- Item Weight : 1.3 pounds
- Dimensions : 6.25 x 0.5 x 9 inches
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About the authors
Elana Levine is Professor of Media, Cinema, and Digital Studies in the Department of English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, Illinois. Her undergraduate degree in English and Telecommunications is from Indiana University and her graduate degrees in Media and Cultural Studies are from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She writes about U.S. television history, gender, sexuality, and media, and feminized popular culture. She lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin with her husband, Michael Z. Newman, and two sons.
Michael Z. Newman is a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He grew up in Toronto and has degrees from McGill University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He teaches and writes about media and popular culture.
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