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Author:   Victoria O′Donnell
Publisher:   SAGE Publications Inc
Imprint:   SAGE Publications Inc
Edition:   3rd Revised edition
Dimensions:   Width: 18.70cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.10cm
Weight:   0.420kg
ISBN:  

9781483377681

ISBN 10:   1483377687
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   19 April 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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PART I: ORIENTATION Chapter 1: The Work of the Critic Introduction The Ends of Criticism Journalistic Television Criticism The Critical Stance Criticism and Culture Narrative and Contextual Reality Critical Categories and Critical Choices The Familiar and the Unfamiliar in Television Critical Orientation Chapter 2: Demystifying the Business of Television Introduction The Impact of the Internet and the Role of Advertising, Schedules, and Ratings The Strategies of Television Advertising Product Promotion Within Television Programs Product Placement Scheduling and Advertising The Production of a Television Show The Production Team PART II: FORMAL ASPECTS OF TELEVISION Chapter 3: Production Techniques and Television Style Introduction Length of Shot and Framing Multi-Camera Production Reaction Shots Lighting Production on Film Versus Digital Video Style, Reception, and Digital Video Practices Camera Choice Follows Function Television Sound and Editing Production Styles Art Direction The Split Screen Directors Actors Chapter 4: Television, the Nation’s Storyteller Introduction Storytelling and the Human Condition The Nature of Narrative Narrative Theories Narrative Structure Intertextuality Characters Archetypes Myth Chapter 5: Television Genres Introduction Television Genre, Production, and Scheduling The Rules for Classifying Genres Genre and Television Criticism Comedy Talk Shows News Magazine Shows Drama Soap Opera Science Fiction Reality Shows Sports Children’s Television Game Shows Other Genres PART III: THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO TELEVISION CRITICISM Chapter 6: Rhetoric and Culture Introduction Rhetoric Cultural Studies Chapter 7: Representation and Its Audience Introduction What Is Representation? Television Representation Interpreting Representation Reception of Televisual Images Symbols The Illusion of Reality The Need for Images Representation of the “Other” Advice for Television Critics Representation and Collective Memory Chapter 8: Postmodernism Introduction Postmodernism Defined Postmodern Television The Influence of MTV Postmodern Theories PART IV: CRITICAL APPLICATIONS Chapter 9: Guidelines for Television Criticism Introduction Critical Orientation Story and Genre Organization Demographics Context The Look of the Program and Its Codes Analysis Judgment Writing Television Criticism Chapter 10: Sample Criticism of a Television Program: The Big Bang Theory—Season 8, Episode 824, “The Commitment Determination” Introduction Thesis Purpose Description of The Big Bang Theory Production Information Description of the Episode Questions for Analysis Analysis and Interpretation

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Victoria O’Donnell is Professor Emerita and former director of the University Honors Program and Professor of Communication at Montana State University–Bozeman. She also taught a seminar in television criticism for the School of Film and Photography at Montana State University. Previously she was the chair of the Department of Speech Communication at Oregon State University and chair of the Department of Communication and Public Address at the University of North Texas. In 1988 she taught for the American Institute of Foreign Studies at the University of London. She received her PhD from the Pennsylvania State University. She has published articles and chapters in a wide range of journals and books on topics concerning persuasion, the social effects of media, women in film and television, British politics, Nazi propaganda, collective memory, cultural studies theory, and science fiction films of the 1950s. She is also the author (with June Kable) of Persuasion: An Interactive-Dependency Approach, Propaganda and Persuasion (with Garth Jowett), Readings in Propaganda and Persuasion: New and Classic Essays (co-edited with Garth Jowett), Television Criticism, and Speech Communication. She made a film, Women, War, and Work: Shaping Space for Productivity in the Shipyards During World War II, for PBS through KUSM Public Television at Montana State University. She has also written television scripts for environmental films and has done voice-overs for several PBS films. She served on editorial boards of several journals. The recipient of numerous research grants, honors, and teaching awards, including being awarded the Honor Professorship at North Texas State University and the Montana State University Alumni Association and Bozeman Chamber of Commerce Award of Excellence, she has been a Danforth Foundation Associate and a Summer Scholar of the National Endowment for the Humanities. She has taught in Germany and has been a visiting lecturer at universities in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Wales. She has also served as a private consultant to the U.S. government, a state senator, the tobacco litigation plaintiffs, and many American corporations. She is an active volunteer with Intermountain Therapy Animals, taking her Golden Retriever, Gabriel, to the elementary schools where the children read to the dog in the R.E.A.D. program. She writes children’s stories about Gabriel. She is currently writing a novel about Ireland.  

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