HBO and the Aristocracy of Contemporary TV Culture: affiliations and legitimatising television culture, post-2007

HBO and the Aristocracy of Contemporary TV Culture: affiliations and legitimatising television culture, post-2007

The premiere US, pay-TV cable company HBO has done more than most to define what ‘original programming’ might mean and look like in the contemporary TV age of international television flow, global media trends and filiations. This article adopts a cultural sociological approach to make sense of the...

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Główni autorzy: Akass, Kim, McCabe, Janet
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Wydane: Mise au point 2018
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spelling openedition-oai:revues.org:map_2472 https://doi.org/10.4000/map.2472 urn:doi:10.4000/map.2472 en https://journals.openedition.org/map/2472 2018-01-15T01:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/i3mc https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ HBO and the Aristocracy of Contemporary TV Culture: affiliations and legitimatising television culture, post-2007 Mise au point Association française des enseignants et chercheurs en cinéma et audiovisuel info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2261-9623 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/map Akass, Kim McCabe, Janet The premiere US, pay-TV cable company HBO has done more than most to define what ‘original programming’ might mean and look like in the contemporary TV age of international television flow, global media trends and filiations. This article adopts a cultural sociological approach to make sense of the structure of the cultural field in which the company operates, framed between ‘culture’ and the ‘market’, between exclusive, qualitatively distinct television content and corporate intent. It elaborates on the ways in which the company imposes a vision of an élite TV culture on the field, in and through producing distinct divisions ad infinitum, to validate the taste values of those who validate HBO. In creating incessant divisions in genre, authorship and aesthetics, HBO incorporates artistic norms and principles of evaluation and puts them into circulation as a succession of oppositions – oppositions that we will explore throughout this article. HBO, première chaîne câblée états-unienne, s’est efforcée plus qu’aucune autre, de définir à quoi ressemble un « programme original » dans le paysage international contemporain du flux télévisuel, des tendances et des filiations du monde médiatique global. Cet article adopte une approche socioculturelle pour analyser la structure du champ culturel dans lequel cette chaîne opère, entre « culture » et « marché », entre contenus télévisuels de qualité et exclusifs, et politique d’entreprise. Il développe les façons dont l'entreprise impose la vision d’une culture télévisuelle élitiste dans le champ, en produisant des distinctions ad libitum, pour valider les goûts de ceux qui valident HBO. En créant des distinctions incessantes en termes de genre, d’auteur et d’esthétique, HBO s’approprie des normes artistiques et des principes d’évaluation et les met en circulation comme une succession d’oppositions – oppositions que nous explorons dans cet article.
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description The premiere US, pay-TV cable company HBO has done more than most to define what ‘original programming’ might mean and look like in the contemporary TV age of international television flow, global media trends and filiations. This article adopts a cultural sociological approach to make sense of the structure of the cultural field in which the company operates, framed between ‘culture’ and the ‘market’, between exclusive, qualitatively distinct television content and corporate intent. It elaborates on the ways in which the company imposes a vision of an élite TV culture on the field, in and through producing distinct divisions ad infinitum, to validate the taste values of those who validate HBO. In creating incessant divisions in genre, authorship and aesthetics, HBO incorporates artistic norms and principles of evaluation and puts them into circulation as a succession of oppositions – oppositions that we will explore throughout this article.
author Akass, Kim
McCabe, Janet
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McCabe, Janet
HBO and the Aristocracy of Contemporary TV Culture: affiliations and legitimatising television culture, post-2007
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McCabe, Janet
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title_short HBO and the Aristocracy of Contemporary TV Culture: affiliations and legitimatising television culture, post-2007
title_full HBO and the Aristocracy of Contemporary TV Culture: affiliations and legitimatising television culture, post-2007
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