Why TV Is Not Our Fault: Television Programming, Viewers, and Who's Really in Control
This book dispels the myth that the television industry is just giving viewers the programming they want to see and, thus, we as viewers are responsible for the existence of shows like Fear Factor and yet another Survivor. In fact, Meehan explains, viewers exert no demand in the market. She also counters the idea that TV programs reflect our culture directly. Introducing us to the political economy of television, Meehan covers programming, corporate strategies, advertising, network competition, and organizations that seek more industry accountability. She tells us why TV isn't our faultand who's really to blame.
The Television Studies Reader by Robert Allen and Annette Hill, ISBN 0415283248
A discussion of a truly international range of television programs, this title covers alternative modes of television such as digital and satellite.
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Survivor - Season One: The Greatest And Most Outrageous Moments
It's the phenomenon that changed television forever and added the phrases Tribal Council and Immunity Challenge to our national vocabulary. Now travel back to unspoiled Pilau Tiga and relive the unforgettable first season of Survivor. This collector's video, featuring never-seen-before footage that couldn't be shown on television, begins with the arrival of 16 strangers to the South China Seas and follows the castaways' 39 day quest for a $1,000,000 payday. All the exciting adventure. All the cutthroat competition. All the ruthless intrigue. All on one sensational cassette.
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Tuning in to Young Viewers: Social Science Perspectives on Television by Tannis M. Macbeth, ISBN 0803958269
Media effects - a key area of media studies - is traditionally provocative and often controversial. Contemporary issues such as violence on television and children's dependence on television are continually debated.
Tuning In to Young Viewers provides a much needed, up-to-date overview of the key topics in television use and effects. It is designed in both style and organization as an upper-level text for courses in communication and psychology and is written by scholars well-known to both fields, in particular for their work concerning media influences.
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All the Math You'll Ever Need: A Self-Teaching Guide by Steve Slavin, ISBN 0471317519
Completely updated and redesigned to be upbeat, encouraging, and non-intimidating--topics cover the basics needed in everyday life, such as multiplication and division, discounts, and interest rates.
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World Television: From Global to Local
This new assessment of the interdependence of television across cultures and nations brings together the most current research and theories on the subject. By examining recent devlopments int eh world system of television as well as some of the thories of culture, industry, genre, and audience, the author brings new insights to the topic. The author argues that television is being simultaneouly globalized, regionalized, nationalized, and even locatlized the therefore looks at all these levels of operation. Drawing on both quantative and cultural studies perspectives, the author provides a new model which attempts to move beyond the current controversies about dependency and globalization.
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The Television Studies Reader by Robert Allen and Annette Hill, ISBN 0415283248
A discussion of a truly international range of television programs, this title covers alternative modes of television such as digital and satellite.
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TV Living: Television, Culture and Everyday Life by David Gauntlett, ISBN 0415184851
"TV Living" presents the surprising results of the largest survey of television viewing habits ever completed. For five years, 500 people kept a diary of their television viewing, their lives, and the relationship between the two. The results upset and confirmed commonly held beliefs about audiences, such as: television is not a masculine domain, the elderly audience has diverse tastes, and people regulate how much violence, sex, or bad language they watch. This clear and engaging book, which includes actual quotes from diaries, presents an exciting, literate, and thoughtful picture of the complex and fascinating relationship between mass media and people's lives today.
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Watching Race: Television and Struggle for Blackness
Examines the cultural politics of television and race.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s television representations of African Americans exploded on the small screen. Why has this occurred, and what relation do these shows have to society's idea of "blackness"? How do these shows relate to earlier television series featuring African Americans? Herman Gray's Watching Race -- now available in paperback for the first time -- offers a new look at the changing representations of African Americans on television.
Starting with the portrayal of blacks on series such as The Jack Benny Show and Amos 'n' Andy, Gray details the ongoing dialogue between television representations and cultural discourse to show how the meaning of blackness has changed through the years of the TV era. Drawing on analyses of The Cosby Show, Frank's Place, In Living Color, and Roc, as well as music videos, news coverage, and advertising, Watching Race examines how the political stakes, cultural perspectives, and social...
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