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Title: Television After TV: Essays on a Medium in Transition
Editor: Lynn Spiegel
Genre: Cultural studies
Thingummies: 2
Synopsis: A collection of essays loosely about television studies from 2004.
Thoughts: I read this book for work, looking for some specific information which I did not find, which may color my opinion somewhat.
I expected this to be a bunch of essays on the change in TV in the age of the internet, possibly with some historical background essays. That was the title, after all. Some of the essays are in fact about this, and several of them are fairly interesting.
Unfortunately, at least half of them are the kind of overly theoretical rambling that causes people to make fun of the ivory tower. Worse, at least half of them appear to have been written for some other purpose and then sort of shoehorned into this collection after they failed to be published in their journal of choice. Essays on the role of the internet in the Million Woman March or the placement of TVs in windows or a fairly obnoxious explanation of why using the author's diagram for the TV dialectic instead of other people's diagrams for the TV dialectic would totally save the world or something all have a tangential relationship with the topic at best. Disappointing.
Editor: Lynn Spiegel
Genre: Cultural studies
Thingummies: 2
Synopsis: A collection of essays loosely about television studies from 2004.
Thoughts: I read this book for work, looking for some specific information which I did not find, which may color my opinion somewhat.
I expected this to be a bunch of essays on the change in TV in the age of the internet, possibly with some historical background essays. That was the title, after all. Some of the essays are in fact about this, and several of them are fairly interesting.
Unfortunately, at least half of them are the kind of overly theoretical rambling that causes people to make fun of the ivory tower. Worse, at least half of them appear to have been written for some other purpose and then sort of shoehorned into this collection after they failed to be published in their journal of choice. Essays on the role of the internet in the Million Woman March or the placement of TVs in windows or a fairly obnoxious explanation of why using the author's diagram for the TV dialectic instead of other people's diagrams for the TV dialectic would totally save the world or something all have a tangential relationship with the topic at best. Disappointing.
