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.
History and the Media
History is everywhere in the media. Television viewers can spend every evening watching a different historian expound upon Empire, Witchcraft, the Civil War or Royal Mistresses or go to the cinema and watch reconstructions of the Second World War, American Civil War or Imperial China. Even current affairs reporting on television, radio or in newspapers implicitly or explicitly includes historical explanations. This book examines the boom in history in television and film, newspapers and radio and the constraints and opportunities it offers. Leading historians and high profile broadcasters, such as Melvyn Bragg, Simon Schama, Tristram Hunt, Ian Kershaw and David Puttnam, drawn on their personal experiences to explore the problems and highlights of representing history in the media.
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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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Cold War, Cool Medium: Television, McCarthyism, and American Culture
Though conventional wisdom claims that television is a co-conspirator in the repressions of Cold War America, Doherty argues that during the Cold War, through television, America actually became a more tolerant place. He examines television programming and contemporary commentary of the late 1940s to the mid-1950s -everything from "See It Now" to "I Love Lucy," from Red Channels to the writings of Walter Winchell and Hedda Hopper. By rerunning the programs, freezing the frames, and reading between the lines, Doherty paints a picture of Cold War America that belies many black and white cliches.
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No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior by Joshua Meyrowitz, ISBN 019504231X
How has television affected our everyday experience? This question has generated endless arguments and speculations, but no thinker has addressed the issue with such force and originality as Joshua Meyrowitz in INo Sense of Place.R Advancing a daring and sophisticated theory, Meyrowitz shows how television and other electronic media create new social situations that are no longer shaped by I whereR we are or who is "with" us.L While other media experts have limited the debate to program content, Meyrowitz focuses on the ways in which television has rearranged "who knows what about whom," making it impossible for us to behave with each other in traditional ways. He shows how television has lifted many of the veils of secrecy between children and adults, men and women, and politicians and average citizens. The result is a series of revolutionary changes, including the blurring of age, gender, and authority distinctions.
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TV Living: Television, Culture and Everyday Life by David Gauntlett, ISBN 041518486X
"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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The Boy Who Did Not Like Television
Zink crafts a wonderful story of a young boy whose one wish is that his parents would turn off the television and turn their attention to him instead. This distresses his parents, but eventually they come to realize that their son is more entertainment than television could ever be. Full color.
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Horton Foote's "The Shape of the River": The Rediscovery of the Classic Teleplay about Mark Twain by Horton Foote, ISBN 1557835195
Published for the first time and reprinted from the only surviving copy of the script, which was discovered in the CBS-TV vaults, Applause is proud to present The Shape of the River, an ambitious television drama by Horton Foote. Mark Twain once remarked that inside every person, "there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy." However, tragedy was a dimension of Twain's life that was largely concealed from the public until The Shape of the River, starring Shirley Knight, appeared on the acclaimed series Playhouse 90 in 1960. Foote's play explored the misfortune and loss that characterized Twain's last fifteen years. From his heroic (and successful) attempt to repay almost $100,000 in debt by lecturing around the world (which he hated) to the deaths of his wife and two daughters, this last phase of his life was marked by an incredible amount of sadness and pain. Not seen since its initial broadcast, The Shape of the River has long held legendary status for fans of both Twain and classic television....
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Watching Television Come of Age: The New York Times Reviews by Jack Gould by Lewis L. Gould, ISBN 0292728468
Providing video companionship for isolated housewives, afternoon babysitting for children, and nonstop evening entertainment for the whole family, television revolutionized American society in the post-World War II years. Helping the first TV generation make sense of the new medium was the mission of Jack Gould, television critic of The New York Times from 1947 to 1972. In columns noteworthy for crisp writing, pointed insights, and fair judgment, he highlighted both the untapped possibilities and the imminent perils of television, becoming "the conscience of the industry" for many people. In this book, historian Lewis L. Gould, Jack Gould's son, collects over seventy of his father's best columns. Grouped topically, they cover a wide range of issues, including the Golden Age of television drama, McCarthy-era blacklisting, the rise and fall of Edward R. Murrow, quiz show scandals, children's programming, and the impact of television on American life and of television criticism on the medium...
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