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Contents<br/>Preface to the Sixth Edition, xi<br/>Preface to the First Edition, xiii<br/>HORACE NEWCOMB<br/>Television and the Present Climate of Criticism, 1<br/>Part I The Production Contexts of Television, 13<br/>CHRISTOPHER ANDERSON<br/>Disneyland, 17<br/>MARK ALVEY<br/>The Independents: Rethinking the Television Studio System, 34<br/>PHIL WILLIAMS<br/>Feeding Off the Past: The Evolution of the Television Rerun, 52<br/>LYNN SPIGEL<br/>Women's Work, 73<br/>vit<br/>i 'Oiltctits<br/>JULIE D'ACCI<br/>Women Characters and "Real World" Heniininit\100<br/>JACKIE BYARS and EILEEN R. MEEHAN<br/>Once in a Lifetime: Constructing "The Working Woman"<br/>through Cable Narrowcasting, 144<br/>DAVID BARKER<br/>lelevision Production lechniques as C'ommunication, 169<br/>HAL HIMMELSTEIN<br/>Kodak's "America": Images from the American Hden, 183<br/>JOHN CORNER<br/>C:ivic Visions: Forms of Documentan', 207<br/>Part II Television Texts, 237<br/>CHARLES McGRATH<br/>The Triumph of the Prime-Time Novel, 242<br/>ADRIENNE L. McLEAN<br/>Media Effects: Marshall McLuhan, Television Culture,<br/>and "The X-Files," 253<br/>MILLY BUONANNO<br/>II Maresciallo Rocca: The Italian Way to the TV Police Series, 266<br/>HERMAN GRAY<br/>The Politics ofRepresentation in Network Television, 282<br/>PAT KIRKHAM and BEVERLEY SKEGGS<br/>Absolutely Fabulous: Absolutely Feminist?, 306<br/>DOUGLAS KELLNER<br/>Beavts and Butt-Head: No Future for Postmodern Youth, 319<br/>AMERICA RODRIGUEZ<br/>Objectivity and Ethnicity in the Production<br/>of the Noticiero Univision, 330<br/>BERNARD TIMBERG<br/>The Unspoken Rules of Television Talk, 354<br/>Contents<br/>MICHAEL SKOVMAND<br/>Barbarous TV International: Syndicated Wheels of Forttnte, 367<br/>IB BONDEBJERG<br/>Public Discourse/Private Fascination: Hybridization<br/>in "True-Life-Stor\'" Genres, 383<br/>DANIEL DAYAN and ELIHU KATZ<br/>Defining Media f:vents: High Holidays of Mass Communication, 401<br/>Part III The Reception Contexts of Television, 421<br/>JOSHUA MEYROWITZ<br/>Multiple Media Literacies, 425<br/>JUSTIN LEWIS and SUT JHALLY<br/>The Struggle Over Media Literacy, 439<br/>ANNA McCarthy<br/>"The Front Row Is Reser\'ed for Scotch Drinkers":<br/>Early Television's Tavern Audience, 451<br/>HENRY JENKINS III<br/>Star Trek Rerun, Reread, Rewritten: Fan Writing<br/>as Textual Poaching, 470<br/>ELLEN SEITER<br/>Making Distinctions in TV Audience Research.<br/>Case Study of a Troubling Interview, 495<br/>JOSTEIN GRIPSRUD<br/>"The Cultural Debate of the Ages": History, Culture,<br/>and Media Politics in Public Reception, 519<br/>Part IV Overviews, 557<br/>HORACE NEWCOMB and PAUL M. HIRSCH<br/>Television as a Cultural Forum, 561<br/>TODD GITLIN<br/>Prime Time Ideology: The Hegemonic Process<br/>in Television Entertainment, 574<br/>.V Contents<br/>DAVID THORBURN<br/>Television Melodrama, S95<br/>CHARLOTTE BRUNSDON<br/>What Ts the " Television" of Television Studies?, 609<br/>DAVID MARC<br/>What Was Rroadcasting?, 629<br/>JOHN THORNTON CALDWELL<br/>Hxcessi\e Style: The Oisis of Network Televisit^n, 649<br/>JAMES HAY<br/>Invisible (Jties/Msible CJeographies: 'Toward a C'ultural Geography<br/>of Italian Television in the 1990s, 687<br/>ERIC MICHAELS<br/>For a (Ailtural Future, 701<br/>About the Authors, 717 |