It's Not TV : Watching HBO in the Post-television Era (Paperback)

Foreword: It's Television. It's HBO,Toby Miller Introduction: If It's Not TV, Then What?, Marc Leverette, Brian L. Ott, and Cara Buckley-Ott Part I: Industry and Economics Introduction: The Not TV Industry, Marc Leverette 1. Para-Television and Discourses of Distinction: The Culture of Production at HBO, Avi Santo 2. And Now No Word from our Sponsors: How HBO Puts the Risk Back Into Television, Tony Kelso 3. Will Yingshuiji Buzz Help HBO Asia?, Shawn McIntosh 4. It's Not TV, it's HBO's Original Programming: Producing Quality TV, Janet McCabe and Kim Akass Part II: Text and Contexts Introduction: The Not TV Text, Brian L. Ott 5.Carnivale: TV Drama without TV Genre, David Marc 6. Challenging Sitcom Conventions: From The Larry Sanders Show to The Comeback, Lisa Williamson 7. "Cocksucker, Motherfucker, Tits," Marc Leverette 8. Baltimore on The Wire: The Tragic Moralism ofDavid Simon, Blake D. Ethridge Part III: Audiences and Identity Introduction: The Not TV Audience, Cara Louise Buckley 9. K Street: "Raping HBO" or "What HBO is All About"?, Conor McGrath 10. Praise You Like I Should: Cyberfans and Six Feet Under, Rhiannon Bury 11. Fashion(able/ing) Selves: Consumption, Identity, and Sex and the City, Cara Louise Buckley and Brian L. Ott 12. "No Country for the Infirm": Angels in an Unchanged America, Joanna L. Di Mattia