Worlds in Common?: Television Discourses in a Changing Europe

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ISBN: 9780415140607 | 0415140609
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 3/16/1999

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This book explores how emerging forms of communication have engendered new television genres and discourses, such as 24-hour news broadcasting, 'culture' channels and talk shows.

Acknowledgements

vii

Introduction

(1)

Context

(5)

Rationale

(7)

Methodology

(5)

History

(5)

PART I The semiotics of time in the third age of broadcasting

(42)

Regularity and change in 24-hour news

(12)

Television and temporal order

(1)

Flow

(2)

The flow of news discourse

(3)

Modularity and meaning on Sky News and n.tv

(2)

Form and content

(2)

Assessment

(1)

Timeliness: textual form and the beef crisis story

(11)

Where's the beef? - the story according to Sky

(3)

The story according to n.tv

(1)

Capturing the moment: British and German histories compared

(7)

Liveness as synchronicity and liveness as aesthetic

(15)

Synchronicity

(3)

Television and history

(2)

Aesthetics

(10)

PART II The semiotics of space in the third age of broadcasting

(52)

Constructing Europe

(18)

Satellite television and the new cultural geography

(1)

The European TV experience

(2)

The European public sphere

(1)

European culture and identities

(2)

European culture and community: a case study

(12)

Narrowcasting

(16)

TV's local audiences

(2)

The new local television

(13)

Spatial relations and sociability

103

(14)

Television's spatial relations in the era of satellite and cable channels

105

(12)

PART III Trash and quality

117

(51)

Bad television?

121

(22)

Bad television: the problem of judgement

122

(2)

Schedule and genre - characterising the new talk shows

124

(19)

European high culture - arts discourse in the new regime

143

(25)

ARTE about ARTE

146

(2)

ARTE scheduling

148

(18)

In conclusion

166

(2)

Worlds in common? Conclusions

168

(8)

Industry, texts and experience

168

(3)

Novelty and familiarity

171

(2)

Television in a changing Europe

173

(3)

Notes

176

(6)

References

182

(7)

Index

189

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Worlds in Common?: Television Discourses in a Changing Europe

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