How To Watch Television

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391 Index ABC (American Broadcasting Company), 34, 236; disputes with the FCC, 271–78; product integration on, 254–58; and sports broadcasting , 263–68. See also Grey’s Anatomy; Life on Mars; Modern Family; Monday Night Football ; NYPD Blue; One Life to Live; Wonder Years, The Access Hollywood, 241–42 acting, 75–77, 197–99 adaptations: book to TV, 13, 17; comic book to TV, 373–81; transnational, 30–37. See also remakes adolescence, 79, 109, 223–28, 338–41, 370; and bullying, 130–32; and homosexuality, 130–37 advertising, 236–37, 301–2, 330; on cooking shows, 331, 333–36; and fashion modeling, 170–71; and flow, 284–87; and sports broadcasting , 179; tie-ins, 343–45. See also branding ; product placement African-Americans, representation of. See race and ethnicity Alda, Alan, 198–201 Ally McBeal, 141, 305 Altman, Robert, 198–200 Amazing Race, The, 94–102, 255, 257 AMC (American Movie Classics), 294, 375, 377. See also Mad Men; Prisoner, The; Walking Dead, The America’s Next Top Model, 168–76 American Football League, 264, 265, 267 Americanization. See cultural imperialism ancillary content, 320–29, 338–45. See also fans; transmedia storytelling animation, 6, 57–64, 177–85; outsourcing of, 369 anime, 364–72 anthology dramas, 67–68, 300–306 anti-authoritarianism, 202, 368 Apple Store, 253–60 Arabs, representation of. See race and ethnicity archival research, 348–50 Arledge, Roone, 255–56, 268 Arnaz, Desi, 300, 244, 245–47 As the World Turns, 41, 43–44, 45, 355, 362 audience fragmentation, 77, 256. See also demographics auteurism, 305, 324, 365. See also authorship authorship, 69, 250, 324, 345; queer authorship, 115, 119; audience authorship, 320–27 Auto-Tune the News, 311–19 A.V. Club, The, 3 Aykroyd, Dan, 79, 80 Ball, Lucille, 244–47, 300 Banks, Tyra, 168, 171–74 Battlestar Galactica, 291, 305, 320–29 Bauer, Gary, 108 BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation), 30, 291. See also Life on Mars “Bed Intruder Song,” 311–19 Berg, Gertrude, 249–250 Bloom, P. J., 48–54 Blue’s Clues, 57–58 Bochco, Steven, 272–73 branding, 173, 186, 188, 263, 264, 283, 287, 377– 78. See also advertising British television, 30–37, 290–94, 297, 354n6 Bullying. See adolescence cable news channels, 96, 186–93, 315; parodies of, 284, 288. See also Fox News Channel cable television, 77, 131, 179, 187–88, 267, 272, 364 camerawork, 15–16, 38, 43–45, 335. See also cinematography cancellation, 30–31, 34–36, 304, 350, 355 Carlin, George, 276, 279n13 Carlson, Gretchen, 186, 190, 193 Cartoon Network, 76, 179, 364, 366. See also Samurai Champloo; Tim and Eric’s Awesome Show, Great Job! cartoons. See animation casting, 89, 107, 126, 208; blindcasting, 142 392 Index CBS (Columbia Broadcasting System), 195, 202, 236, 264, 265, 278. See also Amazing Race, The; Dick Van Dyke Show, The; I Love Lucy; M*A*S*H; Twilight Zone, The celebrity, 149, 153, 235–43 censorship. See content regulation characterization, 23–29, 44–45, 141, 162, 164, 355–63 Charlie’s Angels, 204 Chase, David, 66–72 Child, Julia, 321–22, 352, 353 children’s television, 6, 57–64 cinema verité, 163, 196 cinematography, 16, 38–46, 244, 303. See also camerawork circumscribed agency, 255, 258, 259 citizenship, 160–61, 163–64, 166, 204, 205 class, 38, 114, 118–20, 122–24, 142, 190, 262, 332, 340; and gender, 140, 173; and race/ethnicity, 14, 19–20, 70, 105–7, 108–10, 126–28, 148, 151, 154–55 close-ups, 16, 351, 333–34, 336, 378 Colbert Report, The, 288 Colfer, Chris, 131, 134, 136, 137, 138n6 comedy, 74–81, 104–5, 112, 113, 119, 177–85, 202, 317–18; metacomedy, 75–76. See also parody; satire; sitcoms comic books, 181, 358, 373–81 Comic-Con (San Diego), 375–76 Commercials. See advertising commodification, 171, 173 conservativism, 189–93 consumerism, 42–43, 46, 139, 166, 171, 259, 330–36 content regulation, 182, 211n4, 271–78 convergence, 5–6, 8, 179, 256, 282–83, 285, 287, 311, 320 Cooking Channel, 330, 333 cooking shows, 330–36, 347–53 cop shows. See police shows Corner, John, 160–61 Cosby Show, The, 90, 103–10 costume design, 38, 365, 368 countercultures, 224, 226 Cowboy Bebop, 366 cult TV, 290–97, 320–21 cultural capital, 154, 332 cultural forum, 204–6, 211, 214 cultural imperialism, 213, 217, 295, 369 CW, The, 168, 338, 341, 344–45. See also America ’s Next Top Model; Gossip Girl Daily Show with Jon Stewart...