The notion of "genre", and the precise distinctions it entails, both at the level of television production, and at that of television reception has been too often overlooked, while critics and theoreticians kept arguing about some mythical "essence" of television. Looking at television in "essentialist" terms may lead to some brilliant insights. In most cases, it only leads to sterile polemics, preventing any serious analysis of the process of reception. Thus, the notion of an "oppositional" viewer (a notion developped in regard to political broadcasts) or that of "spectatorial pleasure" (a useful concept, when it comes to studying fiction) lose not only their relevance, but much of their meaning, when they are indiscriminately appli...
Portraying the spectator as a television critic, this paper is based on a comparison between respons...
ABSTRACT This article summarizes the main results of an investigation that is part of a project rega...
This short article examines the strengths and weaknesses of textual analysis as a form of interpreti...
Reception research might lead to a critical re-evaluation of current theories of powerful media effe...
The point of departure for this thesis is the approach to television studies first developed in Read...
International audienceWhen does an audiovisual document or a programme function as a genre and what ...
Summary: When does an audiovisual document or a programme function as a genre and what does the word...
The main limit of critical analyses - both ideological and semiological - of television contents is ...
Recently, contributions to research in the growing field of media production analysis have stressed ...
On what occasions does an audio-visual document or a programme function as a genre and what does the...
This chapter tackles one of the main methodological and conceptual challenges to current audience re...
The purpose of the research is to analyze the technology of creating television programs and to iden...
John Fiske (1985a, 1985b) called for re-theorizing the &dquo;open&dquo; television text and ...
Reception analysis provides a means of understanding media texts by understanding how these texts ar...
Significant elements of narrative clearly recur in television programs. They do so within a number o...
Portraying the spectator as a television critic, this paper is based on a comparison between respons...
ABSTRACT This article summarizes the main results of an investigation that is part of a project rega...
This short article examines the strengths and weaknesses of textual analysis as a form of interpreti...
Reception research might lead to a critical re-evaluation of current theories of powerful media effe...
The point of departure for this thesis is the approach to television studies first developed in Read...
International audienceWhen does an audiovisual document or a programme function as a genre and what ...
Summary: When does an audiovisual document or a programme function as a genre and what does the word...
The main limit of critical analyses - both ideological and semiological - of television contents is ...
Recently, contributions to research in the growing field of media production analysis have stressed ...
On what occasions does an audio-visual document or a programme function as a genre and what does the...
This chapter tackles one of the main methodological and conceptual challenges to current audience re...
The purpose of the research is to analyze the technology of creating television programs and to iden...
John Fiske (1985a, 1985b) called for re-theorizing the &dquo;open&dquo; television text and ...
Reception analysis provides a means of understanding media texts by understanding how these texts ar...
Significant elements of narrative clearly recur in television programs. They do so within a number o...
Portraying the spectator as a television critic, this paper is based on a comparison between respons...
ABSTRACT This article summarizes the main results of an investigation that is part of a project rega...
This short article examines the strengths and weaknesses of textual analysis as a form of interpreti...