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[Nick Browne: The Political Economy of the Television (Super) Text] a particular program along with introductory, interstitial, and concluding materials |
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[Nick Browne: The Political Economy of the Television (Super) Text] everything that has ever been on television, ever |
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[John Fiske: Moments of Television; Neither the Text nor the Audience] does not prescribe either a set of meanings or a set of reading relations for the viewer; instead it delegates the production of meaning to the viewer/producer |
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MSD (Mobile Screening Device) |
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[Heidi Cooly: “It’s All About the Fit: The Hand, the Mobile Screenic Device, and Tactile Vision”] the handheld screening device; allows for “tactile vision” or seeing with the hands and eyes |
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[John Caldwell: “Prime-Time Fiction Theorizes the Docu-Real”] programs that self-consciously showcase documentary units or modes as a part of their narrative and plot. |
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[Lynne Joyrich: “The Epistemology of the Console”] the flux of textual bits which paradoxically creates a sense of continuity through discontinuity |
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[Henry Jenkins: “The Cultural Logic of Media Convergence”] the television text and television audience is interlocked in the process of viewing; viewers gain pleasure from making meaning out of texts, which require reading |
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[Jane Feuer: “The Concept of Live Television: Ontology as Ideology”] the idea that events are portrayed as they happen; even if screening is not live, the signal is live |
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[Laurie Ouellette: “’Take Responsibility for Yourself’: Judge Judy and the Neoliberal Citizen] an economic and political philosophy that calls for a free market economy and espouses individual rights and responsibilities over that of a collective order |
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[John Ellis: “Television: Live Witness Realized”] witnesses as audience and consumer; viewing something as it happens. |
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[Sarah Gwenillian-Jones: “The Sex Lives of Cult Television Characters”] a fantasy extension of a logic already inscribed, moving into the realm of sexuality |
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[Lisa Parks: “Where the Cable Ends: Television beyond Fringe Areas”] areas located 25 miles or more from transmitter that experience reception problems, such as weak or snowy pictures. |
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(The Burns and Allen Show: "Income Tax Man" [original air-date: March 1, 1951])
Significance: Segmental Commodity |
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Leather Jacket/History Books |
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(Buffy the Vampire Slayer : "Fool for Love" [Season 5, original air-date: November 14, 2000])
Significance: Evidence of History in Content |
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(The Bernie Mac Show: "Handle Your Business" [Season 1, original air-date: February 13, 2002])
Significance: Direct Address |
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(Pee-Wee's Playhouse: "Ants in Your Pants" [Season 1, original air-date: November 1, 1986])
Significance: Liveness; Witnessing |
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Mirror/Window Reflections |
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(Quantum Leap: "Color of Truth" [August 8, 1955] [Season 1, original air-date: May 10, 1989])
Significance: Speaking Subject |
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(RuPaul's Drag Race : Episode 4 on http://www.logoonline.com)
Significance: Segmental Commodity |
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(The Bernie Mac Show: "Handle Your Business" [Season 1, original air-date: February 13, 2002])
Significance: Intertextuality |
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(The Wire: "The Target" [Season 1, original air-date: June 2, 2002])
Significance: Different Command Structures; Hierarchy |
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(In Treatment: "Alex, Week 4" [Season 1, original air-date: February 19, 2008])
Significance: Segmentation |
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(Buffy the Vampire Slayer : "Fool for Love" [Season 5, original air-date: November 14, 2000])
Significance: Evidence of History in Content/Form |
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(Star Trek: The Next Generation: "Hollow Pursuits" [Season 3, original air-date: April 30, 1990])
Significance: Slash Fiction |
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“The following is in black and white” |
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(MASH: "The Interview" [Season 4, original air-date: February 24, 1976])
Significance: Direct Address |
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(The Tick: "Heroes" [Season 2, original air-date: November 11, 1995])
Significance: Intertextuality |
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(Columbo: "Fade Into Murder" [Season 6, original air-date: October 10, 1976])
Significance: Intertextuality; Speaking Subject |
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