Televisuality: style, crisis, and authority in American television

pt. I. The problem of the image. Excessive style: the crisis of network television ; Unwanted houseguests and altered states: a short history of aesthetic posturing ; Modes of production: the televisual apparatus

pt. II. The aesthetic economy of televisuality. Boutique: designer television/auteurist spin doctoring ; Franchiser: digital packaging/industrial-strength semiotics ; Loss leader: event status programming/exhibitionist history ; Trash TV: thrift-shop video/more is more ; Tabloid TV: styled live/ontological stripmall

pt. III. Cultural aspects of televisuality. Televisual audience: interactive pizza ; Televisual economy: recessionary aesthetics ; Televisual politics: negotiating race in the L.A. rebellion

Postscript: Intellectual culture, image, and iconoclasm.

Pt. I. The problem of the image. Excessive style: the crisis of network television ; Unwanted houseguests and altered states: a short history of aesthetic posturing ; Modes of production: the televisual apparatus

Pt. II. The aesthetic economy of televisuality. Boutique: designer television/auteurist spin doctoring ; Franchiser: digital packaging/industrial-strength semiotics ; Loss leader: event status programming/exhibitionist history ; Trash TV: thrift-shop video/more is more ; Tabloid TV: styled live/ontological stripmall

Pt. III. Cultural aspects of televisuality. Televisual audience: interactive pizza ; Televisual economy: recessionary aesthetics ; Televisual politics: negotiating race in the L.A. rebellion

Postscript: Intellectual culture, image, and iconoclasm.