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Television Style

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Television Style

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Television Style book

Television Style

DOI link for Television Style

Television Style book

ByJeremy G. Butler
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2009
eBook Published 11 December 2009
Pub. Location New York
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203879573
Pages 248
eBook ISBN 9780203879573
Subjects Humanities
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Butler, J.G. (2009). Television Style (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203879573

ABSTRACT

Style matters. Television relies on style—setting, lighting, videography, editing, and so on—to set moods, hail viewers, construct meanings, build narratives, sell products, and shape information. Yet, to date, style has been the most understudied aspect of the medium. In this book, Jeremy G. Butler examines the meanings behind television’s stylstic conventions.

Television Style dissects how style signifies and what significance it has had in specific television contexts. Using hundreds of frame captures from television programs, Television Style dares to look closely at television. Miami Vice, ER, soap operas, sitcoms, and commercials, among other prototypical television texts, are deconstructed in an attempt to understand how style functions in television. Television Style also assays the state of style during an era of media convergence and the ostensible demise of network television.

This book is a much needed introduction to television style, and essential reading at a moment when the medium is undergoing radical transformation, perhaps even a stylistic renaissance.

Discover additional examples and resources on the companion website: www.tvstylebook.com.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |25 pages

Introduction: Dare We Look Closely at Television?

chapter 1|44 pages

Television and Zero-Degree Style

chapter 2|39 pages

Stylistic Crossover in the Network Era: From Film to Television

chapter 3|29 pages

The Persuasive Power of Style

chapter 4|35 pages

Style in an Age of Media Convergence

chapter 5|50 pages

Televisuality and the Resurrection of the Sitcom in the 2000s

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