How to Watch Television, Second Edition
Frontmatter
Contents
Preface to the Second Edition
Introduction: An Owner's Manual for Television
Part I. TV Form: Aesthetics and Style
1. Better Call Saul: The Prestige Spinoff
2. Empire: Fashioning Blackness
3. House : Narrative Complexity
4. Looking : Smartphone Aesthetics
5. Mad Men: Visual Style
6. Nip/Tuck : Popular Music
7. One Life to Live : Soap Opera Storytelling
8. The Sopranos : Episodic Storytelling
Part II. TV Representation: Social Identity and Cultural Politics
9. 24 : Challenging Stereotypes
10. Bala Loca : Producing Representations
11. Being Mary Jane : Cultural Specificity
12. Buckwild : Performing Whiteness
13. Glee/House Hunters International : Gay Narratives
14. Grey's Anatomy : Feminism
15. Master of None : Negotiated Decoding
16. Orange Is the New Black : Intersectional Analysis
Part III. TV Politics: Democracy, Nation, and the Public Interest
17. The Amazing Race : Global Othering
18. America's Next Top Model : Neoliberal Labor
19. East Los High : Televised Empowerment
20. The Eurovision Song Contest : Queer Nationalism
21. Fox & Friends : Political Talk
22. Full Frontal with Samantha Bee : Feminist Comedy
23. The Hunt with John Walsh : True Crime Storytelling
24. Parks and Recreation : The Cultural Forum
Part IV. TV Industry: Industrial Practices and Structures
25. The Ernie Kovacs Show : Historicizing Comedy
26. Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life : TV Revivals
27. I Love Lucy : The Writer- Producer
28. Modern Family : Product Placement
29. The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills : Franchising Femininity
30. Roseanne : Programming Flow
31. Tales from the Crypt : Content Regulation
32. The Toy Box : Transmedia and Transgenerational Marketing
Part V. TV Practices: Medium, Technology, and Everyday Life
33. Battlestar Galactica : Fans and Ancillary Content
34. Everyday Italian : Cultivating Taste
35. Gossip Girl : Transmedia Technologies
36. High Maintenance and The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl : Indie TV
37. Monty Python's Flying Circus : Layered Comedy
38. NFL Broadcasts: Interpretive Communities
39. Pardon the Interruption : Sports Debate
40. The Walking Dead : Adapting Comics
Acknowledgments
About the Contributors
Index