MEDIAST 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Postmodern Culture, Television Studies, Intertextuality

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Development of working relationship between television and postmodernism within the realm of critical studies is inevitable, almost impossible, and absolutely necessary. Inevitable because tv is frequently referred to as the quintessence of postmodern culture, and postmodernism is just as frequently written off as mere tv culture. Close to impossible because variability of both tv and postmodernism as critical objects; both are currently undergoing widespread theorization in which there are few, if any, commonly agreed-upon first principles. Necessary because the very lack, absence of inherited critical baggage, places television studies in a unique position vis-a-vis postmodernism. No short definition that can encompass divergent, often contradictory ways the term has been employed. 2. movement emerged in 60s, 70s, or 80s depending on medium in question. 3. condition or milieu that typifies an entire set of socioeconomic factors. 4. specific mode of philosophical inquiry that throws into question the givens of philosophical discourse. 6. emergent form of cultural analysis shaped by all of the above.

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