Logics of Television Essays in Cultural Criticism [Paperback]

This intellectually sexy collection features some of the best and brightest academic media analysts from Britain and the United States. Voice Literary Supplement

The essays in this volume rigorously engage the challenges of postmodern cultural criticism and theory, the central contemporary debate in the humanities. Communication Abstracts

Mellencamp has produced a challenging and an invigorating text.... It should provide much inspiration. Journal of Communication

This is a particularly good collection of thirteen papers with, overall, much more theoretically interesting yet less obscure and more pleasure-giving content than the norm. Give it priority. Media Information Australia

These essays, on the cutting edge of theoretical debate in the humanities, rigorously engage the challenges of postmodern cultural critique and theory. They range widely from detailed historical research to broad questions of theory and method.

Contributors are Patricia Mellencamp, Meaghan Morris, John Caughie, Charlotte Brunsdon, Lynn Spigel, William Boddy, Eileen R. Meehan, Andrew Ross, Lynne Joyrich, Jane Gaines, Margaret Morse, Mary Ann Doane, and Stephen Heath.

Acknowledgments

Patricia Mellencamp
Prologue

Meaghan Morris
Banality in Cultural Studies

John Caughie
Playing at Being American: Games and Tactics

Charlotte Brunsdon
Television: Aesthetics and Audiences

Lynn Spigel
Television in the Family Circle: The Popular Reception of a New Medium

William Boddy
The Seven Dwarfs and the Money Grubbers: The Public Relations Crisis of US Television in the Late 1950s

Eileen R. Meehan
Why We Dont Count: The Commodity Audience

Andrew Ross
Techno-Ethics and Tele-Ethics: Three Lives in the Day of Max Headroom

Lynne Joyrich
Critical and Textual Hypermasculinity

Jane Gaines
Superman and the Protective Strength of the Trademark

Margaret Morse
An Ontology of lsÃ