Scholars as Audiences, Symbolic Boundaries, and Culturally Legitimated Prime-Time Cable Drama
This article addresses Jason Mittell's controversial essay “On Disliking Mad Men” (2010) in the cultural context of post-network television. The author uses 72 critical reviews of five HBO series to place Mittell's argument alongside other rhetorical strategies that resist the prestige...
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| description | This article addresses Jason Mittell's controversial essay “On Disliking Mad Men”
(2010) in the cultural context of post-network television. The author uses 72 critical reviews of five
HBO series to place Mittell's argument alongside other rhetorical strategies that resist the prestige
associated with high-status prime-time cable dramas. In relation to these rhetorical strategies, the
troubled publication history of and negative scholarly reactions to Mittell's essay are understood as
indicative of elite post-network television audiences policing the symbolic boundaries surrounding
culturally legitimated texts. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e5b8d7245be4432d821ea796ace0687c2024-03-02T08:52:44ZdeuFreie Universität BerlinGlobal Media Journal: German Edition2196-48072196-48072015-07-0151Scholars as Audiences, Symbolic Boundaries, and Culturally Legitimated Prime-Time Cable DramaMichael L. WayneThis article addresses Jason Mittell's controversial essay “On Disliking Mad Men” (2010) in the cultural context of post-network television. The author uses 72 critical reviews of five HBO series to place Mittell's argument alongside other rhetorical strategies that resist the prestige associated with high-status prime-time cable dramas. In relation to these rhetorical strategies, the troubled publication history of and negative scholarly reactions to Mittell's essay are understood as indicative of elite post-network television audiences policing the symbolic boundaries surrounding culturally legitimated texts.http://www.db-thueringen.de/servlets/DerivateServlet/Derivate-31972/GMJ9_Wayne_final.pdfpost-network televisionaudiencecritical reception |
| spellingShingle | Michael L. Wayne Scholars as Audiences, Symbolic Boundaries, and Culturally Legitimated Prime-Time Cable Drama Global Media Journal: German Edition post-network television audience critical reception |
| title | Scholars as Audiences, Symbolic Boundaries, and Culturally Legitimated Prime-Time Cable Drama |
| title_full | Scholars as Audiences, Symbolic Boundaries, and Culturally Legitimated Prime-Time Cable Drama |
| title_fullStr | Scholars as Audiences, Symbolic Boundaries, and Culturally Legitimated Prime-Time Cable Drama |
| title_full_unstemmed | Scholars as Audiences, Symbolic Boundaries, and Culturally Legitimated Prime-Time Cable Drama |
| title_short | Scholars as Audiences, Symbolic Boundaries, and Culturally Legitimated Prime-Time Cable Drama |
| title_sort | scholars as audiences symbolic boundaries and culturally legitimated prime time cable drama |
| topic | post-network television audience critical reception |
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