Stauff, MarkusCaldwell, John T.2018-09-262018-09-262015https://www.necsus-ejms.org/test/dredging-drilling-mapping-televisions-swamps-interview-john-caldwell-20th-anniversary-televisuality/https://mediarep.org/handle/doc/3380In 1995, John Caldwell’s TELEVISUALITY: STYLE, CRISIS AND AUTHORITY in American Television familiarised media studies with a heterodox methodology, mixing formal analysis and technical insights with work floor knowledge with elaborate theorising. In this interview Caldwell describes how this approach emerged from a conjuncture of practices as different as art school, farm labor, and high theory. Instead of defining the theoretical essence of the medium this combination of approaches allowed for a recursive mapping and drilling of television’s dynamics. Caldwell claims the ‘commercial media industrial systems’ can neither be understood nor effectively criticised with a one-size-fits-all approach; rather, only if we seriously take into account the changing concepts and practices that emerge within these systems. This also requires a pedagogy which does not teach a well-defined model of analysis but rather makes room for collaborative, open-ended research.engCreative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 4.0 GenericAkteur-Netzwerk-Theorieactor-network theoryStilFernsehwissenschaftANTproduction studiesstyletelevision studies79110.5117/NECSUS2015.2.STAU10.25969/mediarep/151972213-0217