New television : the aesthetics and politics of a genre
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New television : the aesthetics and politics of a genre
The University of Chicago Press, 2017
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-252) and index
Contents of Works
- Worlds on screen: the ontology of television series and/as the ontology of film
- Storytelling and worldhood: the screen and us
- "This America, man": tragic reconciliation, television, and The Wire
- The gangster, boredom, and family: Weeds, natality, and new television
- "Boyd and I dug coal together": Justified, moral perfectionism, and the United States of America
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Description
Even though it's frequently asserted that we are living in a golden age of scripted television, television as a medium is still not taken seriously as an artistic art form, nor has the stigma of television as "chewing gum for the mind" really disappeared. Philosopher Martin Shuster argues that television is the modern art form, full of promise and urgency, and in New Television, he offers a strong philosophical justification for its importance. Through careful analysis of shows including The Wire, Justified, and Weeds, among others; and European and Anglophone philosophers, such as Stanley Cavell, Hannah Arendt, and Martin Heidegger; Shuster reveals how various contemporary television series engage deeply with aesthetic and philosophical issues in modernism and modernity. What unifies the aesthetic and philosophical ambitions of new television is a commitment to portraying and exploring the family as the last site of political possibility in a world otherwise bereft of any other sources of traditional authority; consequently, at the heart of new television are profound political stakes.
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