Televisuality, realism and ideology in TV

Abstract

John T. Caldwell uses the term « televisuality » to address the 1980s turn to stylistic exhibitionism in American television. "Televisuality was a stylizing performance" (Caldwell, 1995), TV dominated by style. It generated a new approach to realism by creating new codes.
What are these codes? How does televisuality impact on realism? How does realism relate to ideology?