ISBN:
9780739179574
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (304 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Television and the Self : Knowledge, Identity, and Media Representation
DDC:
302.23/450973
Keywords:
Television broadcasting - Influence
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Media scholars attempt to assess how the media informs and shapes the way we view our lives. This book explores the multiple influences of television in a media landscape that is becoming increasingly fractured. The authors look at television's pedagogical role across the life cycle, and argue that despite a world of multiple screens and competing interests "everything I know about myself, I learned from television
Description / Table of Contents:
Television and the Self; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; Part 1: The Electronic Hearth, or the (un)Real World; 2 The Way We Were: Ritual, Memory, and Televsion; 3 Becoming-Spectator: Tracing Global Becoming through Polish Television in a Canadian Family Room; Part 2: Father (and Mother) Knows Best; 4 As Seen on TV: Media Influences of Pregnancy and Birth Narratives; 5 All About My HBO Mothers: Talking Back to Carmela Soprano and Ruth Fisher; 6 Mad Hatters: The Bad Dads of AMC; Part 3: Family Ties
Description / Table of Contents:
7 Family Communication and Television: Viewing, Identification, and Evaluation of Televised Family Communication Models8 Reality Check: Real Housewives and Fan Discourses on Parenting and Family; 9 Keeping Up with Contradictory Family Values: The Voice of the Kardashians; Part 4: The Facts of Life; 10 The Selling of Gender-Role Stereotyping: A Content Analysis of Toy Commercials Airing on Nickelodeon; 11 "Stand by, Space Rangers": Interstellar Lessons in Early Cold War Masculinity; 12 The Avengers and Feminist Identity Development: Learning the Example of Critical Resistance from Cathy Gale
Description / Table of Contents:
13 Juno for Real: Negotiating Teenage Sexuality, Pregnancy, and Love in MTV's 16 and Pregnant/Teen MomPart 5: As Not Seen on TV; 14 Race, Aging, and Gay In/Visibility on U.S. Televsion; 15 Eighty is Still Eighty, But Everyone Else Needs to Look Twenty-Five: The Fascination with Betty White Despite Our Obsession with Youth; Bibliography; Index; About the Contributors; About the Editors
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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