#Television Culture

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The Classics of Fan Studies: John Fiske - Television Culture

For our first look at the classics of fan studies, I want to talk about a book that isn’t a work of fan studies per se but laid the groundwork for most of the research that came after it. In Television Culture, John Fiske talks about how meanings are made in TV series and how they are read by the viewers:

An essential characteristic of television is its polysemy, or multiplicity of meanings. A program provides a potential of meanings which may be realized, or made into actually experienced meanings, by socially situated viewers in the process of reading. This polysemic potential is neither boundless nor structureless: the text delineates the terrain within which meanings may be made and proffers some meanings more vigorously than others. (14)

In this passage, he explains that many different potential meanings can be read from a TV show and, while each text is produced with the intention of pushing some meanings over others, they can be read in different ways by different viewers. The book focuses mostly on the variety of codes used to insert meaning into TV shows and which are then decoded by the audience in a way that is influenced by their personal history.

As you can guess, this concept is central to fan studies! Fiske pushed the idea that a show can be interpreted in many different ways and that different viewers can have varying interpretations of the same elements. This explains why somebody’s favorite heterosexual comedy might be read as an epic gay love story by others. Keeping Fiske’s work in mind when we witness those conflicting readings helps us to see them as equally valid and simply different interpretations of the codes of this show. Many fan studies scholars use this idea as a starting point in their work!

While his style can be difficult to understand if you’re not used to academic language, Fiske’s book is an interesting read to learn more about how television works and how different interpretations can stem from one TV show.

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Great TV Shows | Tales From Hollywoodland

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Great TV Shows | Tales From Hollywoodland

This week on Tales from Hollywoodland, Arthur, Julian and Steve reveal their favorite television series of all time – from “Milton Berle” to “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” with visits along the way to “Seinfeld,” The Sopranos,” “The Twilight Zone,” Combat” and many more.   

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[popculturebaby]

Michelle Phillips and Cass Elliot in September 1966

[itshouseofwarpeddesire]

#beavisandbutthead #E.T

[honeybadger-who-gives-a-shit]

Not enough people are talking about Mr. Loverman on bbc. This show has:

Two elderly black men in love

Tale about internalized homophobia

Caribbean culture in England and in Antigua

Family dynamics and intergenerational relations

Great acting

A touching story

Is based on a book (I haven't read it yet, but I heard great things)

I won't tell you more because I don't want to spoil it.

Granted, it's not a perfect show, but it is sweet and you should definitely give it a try.

[the-blueprint]

They just dont do Late Night like this anymore! Iconic Hip-Hop Moments that should never be forgotten

The Arsenio Hall Show

[todayinhiphophistory]

Today in Hip Hop History:

Yo! MTV Raps debuted on MTV August 6, 1988

[keirahknightley]

Remembering the opening ceremony of athens 2004 💙🤍💙🤍

And because i know many of you were babies then (some even not born 😅) here is a link to watch the full ceremony. I promise it's worth it 💖💖

[cinematicwasteland]

[theprogressivesadist]

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[popculturebaby]

Janis Joplin in the lobby of the Chelsea Hotel, NYC, March 3 1969 ✨

[thirdity]

A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection — not an invitation for hypnosis.

Umberto Eco, in The Screen Education Reader: Cinema, Television, Culture, by Manuel Alvarado

[todayontumblr]

Wednesday, July 12.

1970s.

Ah, those were the days...

...not that we were there, of course. But we can sure as sugar pretend: listen to dusty vinyl records, grow our hair in all manner of styles, write on typewriters, watch films from the innovative "New Hollywood" directors such as Martin Scorsese, Stanley Kubrick, Mike Nichols, Elaine May, Barbara Kopple, and Francis Ford Coppola if we're feeling artistic, neigh, intellectual (or sit down with Star Wars, Jaws, Rocky, and Saturday Night Fever if we're not), go to a lot of protests, recall our most grisly, harrowing memories from 'Nam, wear high-waisted trousers, and try to sneak into Fleetwood Mac's ever destructive, irresistibly sexy inter-band drama. 

In short, there was a lot happening in the 1970s, or indeed, the #70s, all of it big, bold, colorful, yet earthy, and very often brilliant. It was a decade of immense cultural, political, and societal change, much of it for the better, and much of it that, at the very least, continues in spirit to our own day. The 70s is not such a period of time, indeed, but a state of mind. 

[cinelestial]

Selena Gomez announces that she is engaged to music producer Benny Blanco