Horace Newcomb
Biographic Data
| ID | 4870184 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Horace Newcomb |
| GIVEN NAMES | Horace |
| FAMILY NAME | Newcomb |
| SIGNATURE | NEWCOMB H |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 94 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The production of entertainment media
This chapter focuses on methods for examining the production of entertainment media in particular. Factors ranging from policy formation to the application of new technologies may affect the production of any particular instance of media entertainment. These factors and the relations among them can be described as ‘levels of analysis’. Closely related to case studies of individual productions are projects focusing on the ‘makers’ of entertainment…
Encyclopedia of Television
The Encyclopedia of Television, second edtion is the first major reference work to provide description, history, analysis, and information on more than 1100 subjects related to television in its international context.For a full list of entries, contributors, and more, visit the Encyclo pedia of Television, 2nd edition website
Legacies From the Past: Histories of Television
Remembering Manuel Alvarado
My Media Studies = My TV
Television: The Critical View
Target Practice: A Batesonian “Field” Guide for Communication Studies
Journal Article Target Practice: A Batesonian "Field" Guide for Communication Studies Get access Horace Newcomb Horace Newcomb 1Horace Newcomb is a professor in the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 43, Issue 3, September 1993, Pages 127–132, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1993.tb01284.x Published:…
American television criticism, 1970–1985
(1986). American television criticism, 1970–1985. Critical Studies in Mass Communication: Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 217-228
On the dialogic aspects of mass communication
A major problem for “cultural studies” approaches to mass communication lies in defining relations between mediated texts and social practice. Neither formalist analysis nor “effects studies” adequately account for the link. Grand theories formulated by Marx, Freud, and others also fail here. Hegemony theory offers more adequate explanations, but exhibits weaknesses. In theories of language and text formulated by V. N. Volosinov and M. M. Bakhtin…
Demographic Vistas: Television in American Culture
Preface to the 1984 Edition Foreword to the Revised Edition , by Horace Newcomb Introduction to the Revised Edition 1. Beginning to Begin Again 2. The Situation Comedy of Paul Henning: Modernity and the American Folk Myth in The Beverly Hillbillies 3. The Comedy of Public Safety 4. Gleason's Push 5. Self-Reflexive at Last 6. What Was Broadcasting? Appendix: Broadcast Network Prime Time Viewing Suggestions, 1984-96 Notes Bibliography Glossary Main…
Television as a cultural forum: Implications for research∗
1983). Television as a cultural forum: Implications for research. Quarterly Review of Film Studies: Vol. 8, The Economic and Political Structure of American Television, pp. 45-55
Assessing the Violence Profile Studies of Gerbner and Gross: A Humanistic Critique and Suggestion
By defining television as an "environment of symbols," Gerbner and Gross raise questions that are congenial to and problematic for humanistic study. A difficulty arises when the "environment of symbols" must be interpreted. In their interpretation TV becomes a world "ruled" by violence. Other content factors must be interpreted in terms of this dominant symbol. More serious problems emerge when audience responses are interpreted in terms of these…
The Mystery: Order and Authority
Television as a cultural forum: Implications for research∗
1983). Television as a cultural forum: Implications for research. Quarterly Review of Film Studies: Vol. 8, The Economic and Political Structure of American Television, pp. 45-55
Assessing the Violence Profile Studies of Gerbner and Gross: A Humanistic Critique and Suggestion
By defining television as an "environment of symbols," Gerbner and Gross raise questions that are congenial to and problematic for humanistic study. A difficulty arises when the "environment of symbols" must be interpreted. In their interpretation TV becomes a world "ruled" by violence. Other content factors must be interpreted in terms of this dominant symbol. More serious problems emerge when audience responses are interpreted in terms of these…
Demographic Vistas: Television in American Culture
Preface to the 1984 Edition Foreword to the Revised Edition , by Horace Newcomb Introduction to the Revised Edition 1. Beginning to Begin Again 2. The Situation Comedy of Paul Henning: Modernity and the American Folk Myth in The Beverly Hillbillies 3. The Comedy of Public Safety 4. Gleason's Push 5. Self-Reflexive at Last 6. What Was Broadcasting? Appendix: Broadcast Network Prime Time Viewing Suggestions, 1984-96 Notes Bibliography Glossary Main…
The Mystery: Order and Authority
Assessing the Violence Profile Studies of Gerbner and Gross: A Humanistic Critique and Suggestion
By defining television as an "environment of symbols," Gerbner and Gross raise questions that are congenial to and problematic for humanistic study. A difficulty arises when the "environment of symbols" must be interpreted. In their interpretation TV becomes a world "ruled" by violence. Other content factors must be interpreted in terms of this dominant symbol. More serious problems emerge when audience responses are interpreted in terms of these…
Television as a cultural forum: Implications for research∗
1983). Television as a cultural forum: Implications for research. Quarterly Review of Film Studies: Vol. 8, The Economic and Political Structure of American Television, pp. 45-55
On the dialogic aspects of mass communication
A major problem for “cultural studies” approaches to mass communication lies in defining relations between mediated texts and social practice. Neither formalist analysis nor “effects studies” adequately account for the link. Grand theories formulated by Marx, Freud, and others also fail here. Hegemony theory offers more adequate explanations, but exhibits weaknesses. In theories of language and text formulated by V. N. Volosinov and M. M. Bakhtin…
Demographic Vistas: Television in American Culture
Preface to the 1984 Edition Foreword to the Revised Edition , by Horace Newcomb Introduction to the Revised Edition 1. Beginning to Begin Again 2. The Situation Comedy of Paul Henning: Modernity and the American Folk Myth in The Beverly Hillbillies 3. The Comedy of Public Safety 4. Gleason's Push 5. Self-Reflexive at Last 6. What Was Broadcasting? Appendix: Broadcast Network Prime Time Viewing Suggestions, 1984-96 Notes Bibliography Glossary Main…
American television criticism, 1970–1985
(1986). American television criticism, 1970–1985. Critical Studies in Mass Communication: Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 217-228
Target Practice: A Batesonian “Field” Guide for Communication Studies
Journal Article Target Practice: A Batesonian "Field" Guide for Communication Studies Get access Horace Newcomb Horace Newcomb 1Horace Newcomb is a professor in the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 43, Issue 3, September 1993, Pages 127–132, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1993.tb01284.x Published:…
Television: The Critical View
My Media Studies = My TV
Remembering Manuel Alvarado
Legacies From the Past: Histories of Television
Encyclopedia of Television
The Encyclopedia of Television, second edtion is the first major reference work to provide description, history, analysis, and information on more than 1100 subjects related to television in its international context.For a full list of entries, contributors, and more, visit the Encyclo pedia of Television, 2nd edition website
The production of entertainment media
This chapter focuses on methods for examining the production of entertainment media in particular. Factors ranging from policy formation to the application of new technologies may affect the production of any particular instance of media entertainment. These factors and the relations among them can be described as ‘levels of analysis’. Closely related to case studies of individual productions are projects focusing on the ‘makers’ of entertainment…
Sociology (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Media Studies and Communication (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Media studies (4 works) · Advertising (3 works) · Business (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works)