ISBN:
9781410600172
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xiv, 467 p)
Edition:
2nd ed
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Edition:
Hoboken Taylor & Francis
Series Statement:
LEA's communication series
Parallel Title:
Print version Television and the American Family
DDC:
302.23450973
Keywords:
Television and families
;
Television series
;
Television and children
Abstract:
This second edition of a trend-setting volume provides an updated examination of the interaction between families and the most pervasive mass medium: television. Charting the dynamic developments of the American family and television over the past decade
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; I: Introduction and Overview; 1 Evolution in the Family's Use of Television: An Overview; II: Uses of Television by the American Family; 2 Television Use in Families With Children; 3 Home Ecology and Children's Television Viewing in the New Media Environment; 4 Remote Control Devices and Family Viewing; 5 The VCR, Home Video Culture, and New Video Technologies; III: Attitudes Toward Television; 6 Family Attitudes Toward Television; IV: Portrayals of American Families on Television
Description / Table of Contents:
7 Five Decades of Families on Television: From the 1950s Through the 1990s8 Sibling Interaction in Situation Comedies Over the Years; 9 Balancing Acts: Work-Family Issues on Prime-Time TV; 10 Portrayals of Families of Color on Television; 11 Subversion of the American Television Family; 12 How Psychologically Healthy Are America's Prime-Time Television Families?; V: Meanings and Effects; 13 The Meaning of Television in the American Family; 14 Conflicts and Resolution Strategies Associated With Television in Marital Life; 15 Effects of Television on Child and Family Emotional Well-Being
Description / Table of Contents:
16 Television and the Family: The Cultivation PerspectiveVI: Mediating Television's Impact; 17 Family Mediation; 18 Effects of Family Communication on Children's Interpretation of Television; 19 Mediating Advertising Effects; VII: Public Policy Issues; 20 Curriculum-Based Preschool Television Programming and the American Family: Historical Development, Impact of Public Policy, and Social and Educational Effects; 21 The Effect of Television Policy on Children and Families; Author Index; Subject Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
