John Thornton Caldwell

"The decline of network TV in the face of cable was a crisis in television history, but it also spawned new production initiatives to reassert network authority. John T. Caldwell's classic, Televisuality, demonstrates the cultural logic of stylistic exhibitionism in everything from prestige series and loss-leader event-status programming (Northern Exposure and War and Remembrance) to lower trash and tabloid forms (Pee-Wee's Playhouse and reality TV)...