The Television Will Be Revolutionized, Second Edition
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| Rating | : | 4.59 (588 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1479865257 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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Television, as both a technology and a tool for cultural storytelling, remains as important today as ever, but it has changed in fundamental ways. Lotz proves that rumors of the death of television were greatly exaggerated and explores how new distribution and viewing technologies have resurrected the medium. Shifts in the basic practices of making and distributing television have not been hastening its demise, but are redefining what we can do with television, what we expect from it, how we use it—in short, revolutionizing it. Lotz begins to deconstruct the future of different kinds of television—exploring how “prized content,” live television sports and contests, and linear viewing may all be “television,” but very different types of television for both viewers and producers. Many proclaimed the “end of television” in the early years of the twenty-first century,
good book. Very well writen, the book is an up to date review about the TV industry and its changes in the last years.
Lotz is Professor in the Departments of Communication Studies and Screen Arts and Cultures at the University of Michigan. Amanda D. She is the author of The Television Will Be Revolutionized, Cable Guys: Television and Masculinities in the 21st Century (NYU Press), and Redesigning Women: Television After the Network Era, co-author of Understa
“Television is anything but dead, but we are now fully into the post-network era that Amanda D. An outstanding contribution to television studies and an invaluable guide for students, scholars, and professionals.”-Michael Curtin,co-director, Media Industries Project . An incredibly prescient book, setting many of the terms through which television studies has understood these changes, the revised edition updates its account to reflect an age when Hulu, Netflix, and are now competing for Emmy and Peabody Awards, when television content is being funded through Kickstarter, and where web series are diversifying whose stories get told.”-Henry Jenkins,co-author of Spre