ISBN:
9780415839525
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (275 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Routledge Library Editions: Television
Parallel Title:
Print version Remote Control : Television, Audiences, and Cultural Power
DDC:
302.2345
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
The ways in which we watch television tell us much about our views of gender, the family and society. Bringing together the leading experts in the field of audience studies, this book investigates how viewers watch television, and what they think about the programmes they see. Originally published in 1989, the book is divided into two sections which discuss some of the theoretical issues at stake and then present case studies of a wide range of viewers: women office workers, Israeli watchers of Dallas, German families, the elderly, and American daytime soap fans. Contributors from Britain
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Remote Control; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1 Changing paradigms in audience studies; 2 Bursting bubbles: ""Soap Opera,"" audiences, and the limits of genre; 3 Moments of television: Neither the text nor the audience; 4 Live television and its audiences: Challenges of media reality; 5 Wanted: Audiences. On the politics of empirical audience studies; 6 Text and audience; 7 Out of the mainstream: Sexual minorities and the mass media; 8 Soap operas at work
Description / Table of Contents:
9 The media in everyday family life: Some biographical and typological aspects10 Approaching the audience: The elderly; 11 On the critical abilities of television viewers; 12 ""Don't treat us like we're so stupid and naive"": Towards an ethnography of soap opera viewers; Select bibliography; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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