Genre and Television

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Genre 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 The Simpsons, 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.



Genre and Television

Genre 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 The Simpsons, 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.
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Billie Holiday - Ain`t Nobody`s Business

Episodes of classic television and films based on such shows are collected on ALL-TIME TELEVISION CLASSICS. Featured are THE LUCY SHOW, YOU BET YOUR LIFE, THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW, ADVENTURES OF OZZIE AND HARRIET, and THE RED SKELTON SHOW. Also included are episodes of FLASH GORDON CONQUERS THE UNIVERSE and THE THREE STOOGES, both of which were theatrical shorts that found a second life on the classic television screen. Finally, this set also contains the reunion TV movie RESCUE FROM GILLIGAN'S ISLAND and the Lassie movie PAINTED HILLS. ALL-TIME TELEVISION CLASSICS recalls the three-network Golden Age of television.
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