Genre and Television: From Cop Shows to Cartoons in American CultureGenre and Television proposes a new understanding of television genres as cultural categories, offering a set of in-depth historical and critical examinations to explore five key aspects of television genre: history, industry, audience, text, and genre mixing. Drawing on well-known television programs from Dragnet to TheSimpsons, this book provides a new model of genre historiography and illustrates how genres are at work within nearly every facet of television-from policy decisions to production techniques to audience practices. Ultimately, the book argues that through analyzing how television genre operates as a cultural practice, we can better comprehend how television actively shapes our social world. |
Contents
Before the Scandals Genre Historiography and the | 29 |
From Saturday Morning to Around the Clock | 56 |
Audiences Talk Genres Talk Shows and the | 94 |
Policing Genres Dragnets Texts and Generic Contexts | 121 |
Making Fun of Genres The Politics of Parody | 153 |
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