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Aesthetic criticism and television

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ID5682194
AuthorsJames Walter (0000-0001-7915-0439, University of Birmingham, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume19
Issue1
Pages75-93
Publication date2024-03-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCritical Studies in Television The International Journal of Television Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1749-6020 • E-ISSN: 1749-6039
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/17496020231154462
OpenAlexW4318483457
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited17

Those endorsing or opposing the development of television aesthetics scholarship have exhibited an admirable willingness to reflect upon the rationales and motivations for formulating value judgements. However, very little equivalent attention has been afforded to processes that occur within this area: how scholars conduct analysis and develop claims for achievement in television. In addressing this lack, the following article surveys some of the meanings that 'criticism' has encompassed in Television Studies, offering 'aesthetic criticism' as a useful term to describe the work of analysis and evaluation, before moving to a series of close readings of aesthetic criticism in practice

Aesthetics · Art · Criticism · Epistemology · Literature · Political science · Scholarship · Sociology · Computer Science · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Law · Media Studies and Communication · Philosophy · Psychology · Visual Culture and Art Theory

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    Open Access•Lauren Randall•Television & New Media•2026

  • Cinematic TV drama

    Open Access•Erlend Lavik•Journal of AESTHETICS & CULTURE•2024

  • Disability representation in the ITV crime drama Midsomer Murders

    Open Access•Åsa Kroon•Critical Studies in Television…•2025

  • Aesthetics and Quality in Popular Television Drama

    Open Access•Christine Geraghty•International Journal of Cultural…•2003

  • A response to John Corner

    Karen Lury•Screen•2007

  • Problems with quality

    C C Brunson, C Brunson•Screen•1990

  • Television Criticism

    John Caughie•Screen•1984

  • The Cult of the Generalist—British Television Criticism 1936–83

    Mike Poole•Screen•1984

  • Issues of judgement and value in television studies

    Open Access•Jason Jacobs•International Journal of Cultural…•2001

  • Television studies and the idea of criticism

    Jessica Corner•Screen•2007

  • Broadcast drama and the problem of television aesthetics

    Helen Piper•Screen•2016

  • Re-evaluating the role of television criticism in the British press

    Open Access•Paul Rixon•Journalism•2012

  • Television Aesthetics

    Open Access•Sarah Cardwell•Critical Studies in Television…•2006

Citations per year1.5
Citation span2024 - 2026 (3)
Highly citedNo

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