After the Break

After the Break Televisual Culture Table of Contents After the Break: Television Theory Today - Marijke de Valck and Jan Teurlings 1. Questioning the crisis 2. New paradigms 3. New concepts References Part I: Questioning the crisis 'Unreading' contemporary television - Herbert Schwaab 1. Analyzing quality television.and why it is redundant 2. The complexities of television as medium 3. Unreading television 4. Conclusion References Caught: Critical versus everyday perspectives on television - Joke Hermes 1. Media 2.0 and the cultural studies perspective on television 2. The mass communication paradigm in its protoprofessionalized version 3. Conclusion Notes References 1. National television in a global era 2. National viewing 3. The Flemish case 4. Conclusion References Constructing television: Thirty years that froze an otherwise dynamic medium - William Uricchio 1. An era of constraint 2. The public and the nation: lessons from the Third Reich 3. A television freeze and a Cold War 4. Contextualizing constraint References When old media never stopped being new: Television's history as an ongoing experiment - Judith Keilbach and Markus Stauff 1. Always already new: the ongoing transformation of television 2. Experimental systems 3. Experiments in television 4. Experimental moments of broadcast/network television 5. Broadcast/network television as an ongoing experiment 6. Post-network experiments 7. Closing remark on television studies Notes References Part II: New paradigms Unblackboxing production: What media studies can learn from actor-network theory - Jan Teurlings 1. ANT - a very short introduction 2. A mechanics of power 3. Media from an ANT perspective 4. The media's mechanics of power 5. A teaching moment 6. Conclusion References 1. Introduction 2. The empirical tendency and information theory 3. Convergence thinking 4. Conclusion References Television memory after the end of television history? - Juan Francisco Gutiérrez Lozano 1. Television memory and television history 2. Television memory and audience research 3. The complexity of the concept of television memory 4. Representations of the past on television: television as memory maker 5. Towards a new participative television memory 6. Conclusion References Part III: New concepts 1. Introduction 2. YouTube as technology: homecasting 3. YouTube as social practice: video-sharing 4. YouTube as cultural form: snippets 5. Conclusion Notes References Move along folks, just move along, there's nothing to see: Transience, televisuality and the paradox of anamorphosis - Margot Bouman References 1. The value of art on TV 2. The art of selling the work of art 3. Apparitional television 4. Conclusion References About the authors Index