It's Not TV

Watching HBO in the Post-Television Era
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-415-96037-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 567 g

Since first going on the air in 1972, HBO has continually attempted to redefine television as we know it. Today, pay television (and HBO in particular) is positioned as an alternative to network offerings, consistently regarded as the premier site for what has come to be called "quality television."

This collection of new essays by an international group of media scholars argues that HBO, as part of the leading edge of television, is at the center of television studies’ interests in market positioning, style, content, technology, and political economy. The contributors focus on pioneering areas of analysis and new critical approaches in television studies today, highlighting unique aspects of the "HBO effect" to explore new perspectives on contemporary television from radical changes in technology to dramatic shifts in viewing habits.

It’s Not TV provides fresh insights into the "post-television network" by examining HBO’s phenomenally popular and pioneering shows, including The Sopranos, The Wire, Six Feet Under, Sex and the City as well as its failed series, such as K Street and The Comeback. The contributors also explore the production process itself and the creation of a brand commodity, along with HBO’s place as a market leader and technological innovator.

Contributors: Kim Akass, Cara Louise Buckley, Rhiannon Bury, Joanna L. Di Mattia, Blake D. Ethridge, Tony Kelso, Marc Leverette, David Marc, Janet McCabe, Conor McGrath, Shawn McIntosh, Brian L. Ott, Avi Santo, Lisa Williamson

Foreword by Toby Miller

Marc Leverette is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at Colorado State University. He is author of Professional Wrestling, the Myth, the Mat, and American Popular Culture and co-editor of Zombie Culture: Autopsies of the Living Dead and Oh My God, They Deconstructed South Park! Those Bastards!

Brian L. Ott is Associate Professor of Media Studies at Colorado State University. He is author of The Small Screen: How Television Equips Us to Live in the Information Age.

Cara Louise Buckley is a lecturer at Emerson College.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Leverette, Marc

Ott, Brian L

Louise Buckley, Cara

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft Radio- und Fernsehindustrie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Fernsehen & Rundfunk

Inhaltsverzeichnis

It’s Not TV: Watching HBO in the Post-Television Era Edited by Marc Leverette, Brian L. Ott, and Cara Louise Buckley Foreword: It’s Television. It’s HBO Toby Miller If it’s Not TV, Then What? Part I: Industry and Economics The Not TV Industry Marc Leverette 1. Para-Television and Discourses of Distinction: The Culture of Production at HBO Avi Santo 2. And Now No Word from Our Sponsors: How HBO Puts the Risk Back Into Television Tony Kelso 3. Will Yingshuiji Buzz Help HBO Asia? Shawn McIntosh 4. It’s Not TV, It’s HBO’s Original Programming: Producing Quality TV Janet McCabe and Kim Akass Part II: Text and Contexts The Not TV Text Brian L. Ott 5. Carnivàle: TV Drama Without TV Genre David Marc 6. Challenging Sitcom Conventions: From The Larry Sanders Show to The Comeback Lisa Williamson 7. Cocksucker, Motherfucker, Tits Marc Leverette 8. Baltimore on The Wire: The Tragic Moralism David Simon Blake D. Ethridge Part III: Audiences and Identity The Not TV Audience Cara Louise Buckley 9. K Street: Raping HBO or What HBO is All About? Conor McGrath 10. Praise You Like I Should: Cyberfans and Six Feet Under Rhiannon Bury 11. Fashion(able/ing) Selves: Consumption, Identity, and Sex and the City Cara Louise Buckley and Brian L. Ott 12. No country for the infirm: Angels in an Unchanged America Joanna L. Di Mattia Contributors

Über Autor(innen)

Marc Leverette is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at Colorado State University. He is author of Professional Wrestling, the Myth, the Mat, and American Popular Culture and co-editor of Zombie Culture: Autopsies of the Living Dead and Oh My God, They Deconstructed South Park! Those Bastards!
Brian L. Ott is Associate Professor of Media Studies at Colorado State University. He is author of The Small Screen: How Television Equips Us to Live in the Information Age.
Cara Louise Buckley isLecturer at Emerson College.