After the break : television theory today /
edited by Marijke de Valck and Jan Teurlings.
- Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, (c)2013.
- 1 online resource (202 pages) : illustrations
- Televisual Culture .
Includes bibliographies and index.
After the break : television theory today / Questioning the crisis. 'Unreading' contemporary television / New paradigms. Unblackboxing production : what media studies can learn from actor-network theory / New concepts. YouTube beyond technology and cultural form / Marijke de Valck and Jan Teurlings -- Herbert Schwaab ; Caught : critical versus everyday perspectives on television / Joke Hermes ; The persistence of national TV : language and cultural proximity in Flemish fiction / Alexander Dhoest ; Constructing television : thirty years that froze an otherwise dynamic medium / William Uricchio ; When old media never stopped being new : television's history as an ongoing experiment / Judith Keilbach and Markus Stauff -- Jan Teurlings ; Convergence thinking, information theory and labour in 'end of television' studies / Mark Hayward ; Television memory after the end of television history? / Juan Francisco Gutiérrez Lozano -- José van Dijck ; Move along folks, just move along, there's nothing to see : transcience, televisuality and the paradox of anamorphosis / Margot Bouman ; Barry Chappell's fine art showcase : apparitional TV, aesthetic value, and the art market / Mimi White.
Television as we knew it is irrevocably changing. Some are gleefully announcing the death of television, others have been less sanguine but insist that television is radically changing underneath our eyes. Several excellent publications have dealt with television's uncertain condition, but few have taken the specific question of what television's transformations mean for the discipline of Television Studies as a starting point. The essays collected in this volume aim to fill this void. Two fundamental questions string the various contributions together. First, is television really in crisis or is the present not so extraordinary when revisiting television's development? Second, should we invent new theoretical concepts or are our old ones still perfectly relevant? To answer such questions the authors in this volume take up diverse case studies, ranging from the academic series Reading Contemporary Television to Flemish Fiction, from nostalgic programming on broadcast television to YouTube, from tell-sell television shows to public television art in the 1980s.