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In the eye of the beholder : critical perspectives in popular film and television

Title
In the eye of the beholder : critical perspectives in popular film and television / edited by Gary R. Edgerton, Michael T. Marsden, and Jack Nachbar.
Publication
Bowling Green, OH : Bowling Green State University Popular Press, [1997], ©1997.

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Additional Authors
  • Edgerton, Gary R. (Gary Richard), 1952-
  • Marsden, Michael T.
  • Nachbar, John G.
Description
274 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-261) and indexes.
Contents
  • Introduction: Film and Television Criticism in Cultural Context / Gary R. Edgerton, Michael T. Marsden and Jack Nachbar -- Pt. 1. The Popular Tradition. 1. "Mystic Chords of Memory": The Cultural Voice of Ken Burns / Gary R. Edgerton. 2. The Rise and Fall of Saturday Night Live: Lorne Michaels as a Television Writer-Producer / George Plasketes. 3. Evolution of the Academy Award-Winning Script for Witness / Michael T. Marsden. 4. Flow, Genre, and the Television Text / Gregory A. Waller. 5. The Question of Popular Genres Revisited / John G. Cawelti. 6. Researching Film and Television Audiences / Bruce A. Austin. 7. Motion Picture Story Magazine and the Gendered Construction of the Movie Fan / Kathryn H. Fuller -- Pt. 2. Assessing the Contemporary Cultural Landscape. 8. Midnight S/excess: Cult Configurations of "Femininity" and the Perverse / Gaylyn Studlar. 9. The Woman in the Door: Framing Presence in Film Noir / J. P. Telotte.
  • 10. Reading the Talk Show: The Politics of Talk Soup / Laurie Ouellette and Carolyn Anderson. 11. They Went Thataway, Old Chap: Movie Images of the English on the American Western Frontier / Jack Nachbar. 12. Hollywood's Disabled Vietnam Vet Revisited / Martin F. Norden. 13. The Role of Television News in Portraying People Living with AIDS / Rod Carveth. 14. Ethical Guidelines for Promoting Prosocial Messages through the Popular Media / William J. Brown and Arvind Singhal -- Pt. 3. Additional Sources in Popular Film and Television. 15. Selective Bibliography for Researching Popular Film: Sources and Strategies / Peter C. Rollins. 16. Selective Bibliography for Researching Television: Sources and Strategies / Robert J. Thompson.
ISBN
  • 0879727535 (cloth)
  • 0879727543 (pbk.)
LCCN
97014881
OCLC
ocm36949574
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries