Tv Living

Author : David Gauntlett
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134667914
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book TV Living written by David Gauntlett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-04 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TV Living presents the findings of the BFI Audience Tracking Study in which 500 participants completed detailed questionnaire-diaries on their lives, their television watching, and the relationship between the two over a five year period. Gauntlett and Hill use this extensive data to explore some of the most fundamental questions in media and cultural studies, focusing on issues of gender, identity, the impact of new technologies, and life changes. Opening up new areas of debate, the study sheds new light on audiences and their responses to issues such as sex and violence on television. A unique study of contemporary tv audience behaviour and attitudes, TV Living offers a fascinating insight into the complex relationship between mass media and people's lives today.

Author : Laurie Ouellette
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9781405134415
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Better Living through Reality TV written by Laurie Ouellette and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2008-01-29 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining cutting-edge theories of culture and government with programming examples—including Todd TV, Survivor, and American Idol—Better Living through Reality TV moves beyond the established concerns of political economy and cultural studies to conceptualize television's evolving role in the contemporary period. A major textbook on the impact of reality and lifestyle television on today’s programming, and on broader social, cultural and political trends Draws on a range of examples from The Apprentice and American Idol to Extreme Makeover and Wife Swap Argues that reality television teaches viewers to monitor, motivate, improve, transform and protect themselves in the name of freedom, enterprise, and personal responsibility

Author : Lynn Spigel
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226769677
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Make Room for TV written by Lynn Spigel and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1992-06 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1948 and 1955, nearly two-thirds of all American families bought a television set—and a revolution in social life and popular culture was launched. In this fascinating book, Lynn Spigel chronicles the enormous impact of television in the formative years of the new medium: how, over the course of a single decade, television became an intimate part of everyday life. What did Americans expect from it? What effects did the new daily ritual of watching television have on children? Was television welcomed as an unprecedented "window on the world," or as a "one-eyed monster" that would disrupt households and corrupt children? Drawing on an ambitious array of unconventional sources, from sitcom scripts to articles and advertisements in women's magazines, Spigel offers the fullest available account of the popular response to television in the postwar years. She chronicles the role of television as a focus for evolving debates on issues ranging from the ideal of the perfect family and changes in women's role within the household to new uses of domestic space. The arrival of television did more than turn the living room into a private theater: it offered a national stage on which to play out and resolve conflicts about the way Americans should live. Spigel chronicles this lively and contentious debate as it took place in the popular media. Of particular interest is her treatment of the way in which the phenomenon of television itself was constantly deliberated—from how programs should be watched to where the set was placed to whether Mom, Dad, or kids should control the dial. Make Room for TV combines a powerful analysis of the growth of electronic culture with a nuanced social history of family life in postwar America, offering a provocative glimpse of the way television became the mirror of so many of America's hopes and fears and dreams.

Author : Steven A. Benko
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793636192
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Better Living through TV written by Steven A. Benko and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-03-25 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Watching television need not be a passive activity or simply for entertainment purposes. Television can be the site of important identity work and moral reflection. Audiences can learn about themselves, what matters to them, and how to relate to others by thinking about the implicit and explicit moral messages in the shows they watch. Better Living through TV: Contemporary TV and Moral Identity Formation analyzes the possibility of identifying and adopting moral values from television shows that aired during the latest Golden Era of television and Peak TV. The diversity of shows and approaches to moral becoming demonstrate how television during these eras took advantage of new technologies to become more film-like in both production quality and content. The increased depth of characterization and explosion of content across streaming and broadcast channels gave viewers a diversity of worlds and moral values to explore. The possibility of finding a moral in the stories told on popular shows such as The Sopranos, Breaking Bad, The Wire, and The Good Place, as well as lesser known shows such as Letterkenny and The Unicorn, are explored in a way that centers television viewing as a site for moral identity formation.

Author : Barbara Jean Brock
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Living Outside the Box written by Barbara Jean Brock and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study on the positives of limiting and eliminating TV time by Barbara Brock.

Author : Lynn Spigel
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478022892
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book TV Snapshots written by Lynn Spigel and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-08 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In TV Snapshots, Lynn Spigel explores snapshots of people posing in front of their television sets in the 1950s through the early 1970s. Like today’s selfies, TV snapshots were a popular photographic practice through which people visualized their lives in an increasingly mediated culture. Drawing on her collection of over 5,000 TV snapshots, Spigel shows that people did not just watch TV: women used the TV set as a backdrop for fashion and glamour poses; people dressed in drag in front of the screen; and in pinup poses, people even turned the TV setting into a space for erotic display. While the television industry promoted on-screen images of white nuclear families in suburban homes, the snapshots depict a broad range of people across racial, ethnic, and class backgrounds that do not always conform to the reigning middle-class nuclear family ideal. Showing how the television set became a central presence in the home that exceeded its mass entertainment function, Spigel highlights how TV snapshots complicate understandings of the significance of television in everyday life.

Author : Tom Hill
Publisher : Touchstone
ISBN 13 : 9780684815930
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nick at Nite's Classic TV Companion written by Tom Hill and published by Touchstone. This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nick at Nite's Classic TV Companion offers capsule descriptions of every episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show, I Love Lucy, Bewitched, The Bob Newhart Show, I Dream of Jeannie, The Munsters, Taxi, and Welcome Back, Kotter. Featured are such vital nuggets as classic guest stars: cameos by famous actors; classic quotes: TV's classic catchphrases and unforgettable one-liners; and awards and critical comments."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Illinois Technograph written by and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Gauntlett
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134667906
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book TV Living written by David Gauntlett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-04 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TV Living presents the findings of the BFI Audience Tracking Study in which 500 participants completed detailed questionnaire-diaries on their lives, their television watching, and the relationship between the two over a five year period. Gauntlett and Hill use this extensive data to explore some of the most fundamental questions in media and cultural studies, focusing on issues of gender, identity, the impact of new technologies, and life changes. Opening up new areas of debate, the study sheds new light on audiences and their responses to issues such as sex and violence on television. A unique study of contemporary tv audience behaviour and attitudes, TV Living offers a fascinating insight into the complex relationship between mass media and people's lives today.

Author : Sasha Torres
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822321958
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Living Color written by Sasha Torres and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent media events like the beating of Rodney King and the murder trial of O.J. Simpson have trained our collective eye on the televised spectacle of race. LIVING COLOR combines media studies, cultural studies, and critical race theory to investigate the representation of race on American television. LIVING COLOR makes explicit the centrality of race and ethnicity to American life. 54 photos.