ISBN:
9781598743692
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (276 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Kottak, Conrad Phillip Prime-Time Society : An Anthropological Analysis of Television and Culture, Updated Edition
DDC:
302.23450973
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Foreword to the First Edition by Robert DaMatta -- Acknowledgments (1990) -- Introduction: Prime-Time Society 20 Years Later -- Acknowledgements (2009) -- About the Author -- PART ONE Television and Culture -- CHAPTER ONE Television and Cultural Behavior -- Teleconditioning -- TV Content's Cultural Impact -- The Cultural Dimension -- CHAPTER TWO Studying Television -- The American Perspective -- TV Research and Modern Anthropology -- The Special Significance of Brazil -- Theoretical Significance
Abstract:
Cultural Imperialism or Cultural Diversity -- National-Level Research -- Content Study -- Impact on Rural Communities -- PART TWO The National Level -- CHAPTER THREE Censors and Gatekeepers -- Government Censorship -- Consumers and Public Opinion -- Measuring the Audience -- Audience Targeting: Massification Versus Segmental Appeal -- Network Dominance -- Monopolistic Control over Multiple Media -- The Role of the Audience -- A Presidential Campaign -- CHAPTER FOUR Telenovelas, Mass Culture, and National Identity -- Television and National Identification in Brazil -- The Telenovela
Abstract:
The Pattern or Quality and Mass Participation -- The Pattern of Quality -- Constancy -- The Role of the Writer -- Constancy Through the Actor -- Other Constants -- Themes, Settings, and Characters -- CHAPTER FIVE Cultural Contrasts in Prime-Time Society -- Family Affairs -- Strangers, Friends, and Workmates -- Occupations and Social Status in Televisionland -- Social Class and Ways to Rise in Life -- Dark-Skinned Actors and Characters -- CHAPTER SIX Competition, Achievement, and Information -- Narrow World of Sports -- Cultural Values in Sports: Being Versus Doing -- Awards
Abstract:
Information Processing and Brain Games -- Where's the Weather? -- CHAPTER SEVEN What's News: Crime, Violence, and the Stranger -- Crime in the Streets -- Violence in Content -- Does TV Violence Increase Subsequent Aggressiveness? -- Dominant Themes: The Quest and the Stranger -- Case Analysis: Star Trek as a Summation of Dominant American Cultural Themes -- Anthropology and the Quest -- PART THREE The Local Level -- CHAPTER EIGHT The Field Sites -- Gurupá -- Arembepe -- Cunha -- Ibirama -- Niterói -- Americana-Santa Barbara -- CHAPTER NINE Television's Social Impact -- Social Navigation
Abstract:
Has Television Changed Your Life? -- How We Analyzed TV Effects -- Stages of TV Impact -- Television's Effects on Social Behavior -- Television in Society -- Marriage, Family, and Social Distance -- Contact, Solitude, Alienation, and the Issue of Telepassivity -- Televiewing's Effects on Reading -- CHAPTER TEN Television's Impact on Attitudes, Fears, Values, Images, and Consumerism -- Measuring TV Exposure -- Measuring Attitudes -- Viewer Demographics -- A Scary World? -- Trust -- Liberal Sex-Gender Views -- Values: Family, Education, Love, Honor, Ability, Luck, Hard Work
Abstract:
Occupational Prestige Ratings and Aspirations
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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