Thinking outside the box
Subtitle: a contemporary television genre reader
By: edited by Gary R. Edgerton and Brian Rose.
Contributors: Edgerton, Gary R. 1952-; Rose, Brian Geoffrey.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Lexington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780813123653
Subjects: Television programs; Television program genres
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Reflections on TV : the most popular art / Horace Newcomb; title: A cultural approach to television genre theory / Jason Mittell; title: Television networks and the uses of drama / Christopher Anderson; title: The changing face of children's television / Norma Pecora; title: Five decades and three hundred sitcoms about class and gender / Richard Butsch; title: Soap opera survival tactics / Ellen Seiter and Mary Jeanne Wilson; title: Beyond genre : cable's impact on the talk show / Jeffrey P. Jones; title: The changing definition of reality television / Ron Simon; title: Unreal TV / Rhonda Wilcox; title: HBO's approach to generic transformation / Al Auster; title: I want my niche TV : genre as a networking strategy in the digital era / Gary R. Edgerton and Kyle Nicholas; title: Globalization and the generic transformation of telenovelas / Timothy Havens; title: From Kung Fu to imperial court : chinese historical drama / Michael Curtin; title: Innovation, imitation, and hybridity in Indian television / Shanti Kumar.