After the Break

Marijke de Valck is a lecturer of Media Studies at Amsterdam University Jan Teurlings is lecturer in television studies at the University of Amsterdam.

• After the Break - 2 TELEVISUAL CULTURE - 3 Table of Contents - 6 After the Break, Television Theory Today - 8 1. Questioning the crisis - 12 2. New paradigms - 14 3. New concepts - 15 4. Concluding thoughts - 16 References - 16 Part I: Questioning the crisis - 20 'Unreading' contemporary television - 22 1. Analyzing quality television=and why it is redundant - 24 2. The complexities of television as medium - 26 3. Unreading television - 28 4. Conclusion - 31 References - 32 Caught, Critical versus everyday perspectives on television - 36 1. Media 2.0 and the cultural studies perspective on television - 38 2. The mass communication paradigm in its protoprofessionalized version - 40 3. Conclusion - 47 Notes - 48 References - 49 The persistence of national TV, Language and cultural proximity in Flemish fiction - 52 1. National television in a global era - 52 2. National viewing - 55 3. The Flemish case - 57 4. Conclusion - 61 Notes - 62 References - 62 Constructing television, Thirty years that froze an otherwise dynamic medium - 66 1. An era of constraint - 68 2. The public and the nation: lessons from the Third Reich - 70 3. A television freeze and a Cold War - 72 4. Contextualizing constraint - 74 Notes - 78 References - 78 When old media never stopped being new, Television's history as an ongoing experiment - 80 1. Always already new: the ongoing transformation of television - 81 2. Experimental systems - 83 3. Experiments in television - 85 4. Experimental moments of broadcast/network television - 88 5. Broadcast/network television as an ongoing experiment - 91 6. Post-network experiments - 92 7. Closing remark on television studies - 94 Notes - 95 References - 96 Part II: New paradigms - 100 Unblackboxing production, What media studies can learn from actor-network theory - 102 1. ANT - a very short introduction - 103 2. A mechanics of power - 105 3. Media from an ANT perspective - 106 4. The media's mechanics of power - 108 5. A teaching moment - 110 6. Conclusion - 113 Notes - 114 References - 114 Convergence thinking, information theory and labour in 'end of television' studies - 118 1. Introduction - 118 2. The empirical tendency and information theory - 120 3. Convergence thinking - 124 4. Conclusion - 127 Notes - 129 References - 129 Television memory after the end of television history? - 132 1. Television memory and television history - 133 2. Television memory and audience research - 134 3. The complexity of the concept of television memory - 136 4. Representations of the past on television: television as memory maker - 137 5. Towards a new participative television memory - 140 6. Conclusion - 142 Notes - 143 References - 143 Part III: New concepts - 146 YouTube beyond technology and cultural form - 148 1. Introduction - 148 2. YouTube as technology: homecasting - 149 3. YouTube as social practice: video-sharing - 151 4. YouTube as cultural form: snippets - 154 5. Conclusion - 157 Notes - 158 References - 159 Move along folks, just move along, there's nothing to see, Transience, televisuality and the paradox of anamorphosis - 162 Notes - 175 References - 175 Barry Chappell's Fine Art Showcase. Apparitional TV, aesthetic value, and the art market - 180 1. The value of art on TV - 180 2. The art of selling the work of art - 183 3. Apparitional television - 185 4. Conclusion - 190 Notes - 191 References - 191 About the authors - 194 Index - 198