Logics of Television – Essays in Cultural Criticism

Acknowledgments
Patricia Mellencamp
Prologue
Meaghan Morris
Banality in Cultural Studies
John Caughie
Playing at Being American: Games and Tactics
Charlotte Brunsdon
Television: Aesthetics and Audiences
Lynn Spigel
Television in the Family Circle: The Popular Reception of a New Medium
William Boddy
The Seven Dwarfs and the Money Grubbers: The Public Relations Crisis of US Television in the Late 1950s
Eileen R. Meehan
Why We DonÕt Count: The Commodity Audience
Andrew Ross
Techno-Ethics and Tele-Ethics: Three Lives in the Day of Max Headroom
Lynne Joyrich
Critical and Textual Hypermasculinity
Jane Gaines
Superman and the Protective Strength of the Trademark
Margaret Morse
An Ontology of Everyday Distraction: The Freeway, the Mall, and Television
Mary Ann Doane
Information, Crisis, Catastrophe
Patricia Mellencamp
TV Time and Catastrophe, or Beyond the Pleasure Principle of Television
Stephen Heath
Representing Television
Contributors
Name Index
Subject Index

"This intellectually sexy collection features some of the best and brightest academic media analysts from Britain and the United States." - Voice Literary Supplement "The essays in this volume rigorously engage the challenges of postmodern cultural criticism and theory, the central contemporary debate in the humanities." - Communication Abstracts
"Mellencamp has produced a challenging and an invigorating text. . . . It should provide much inspiration." - Journal of Communication
"This is a particularly good collection of thirteen papers with, overall, much more theoretically interesting yet less obscure and more pleasure-giving content than the norm. Give it priority." - Media Information Australia

"This intellectually sexy collection features some of the best and brightest academic media analysts from Britain and the United States." - Voice Literary Supplement "The essays in this volume rigorously engage the challenges of postmodern cultural criticism and theory, the central contemporary debate in the humanities." - Communication Abstracts "Mellencamp has produced a challenging and an invigorating text... It should provide much inspiration." - Journal of Communication "This is a particularly good collection of thirteen papers with, overall, much more theoretically interesting yet less obscure and more pleasure-giving content than the norm. Give it priority." - Media Information Australia

The essays in Logics of Television are at the cutting edge of theoretical debate in the humanities. The contributors rigorously engage the challenges of postmodern cultural criticism and theory.

edited by Patricia Mellencamp