| Author | : P. H. Tannenbaum |
| Publisher | : Psychology Press |
| Total Pages | : 273 |
| Release | : 2014-03-18 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 1317770390 |
First published in 1980. This volume is an indirect product of the activities of the Committee on Television and Social Behavior of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC). This is a collection of essays looking at the entertainment function of television in the United States.
| Author | : P. H. Tannenbaum |
| Publisher | : Psychology Press |
| Total Pages | : 268 |
| Release | : 2014-03-18 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 1317770382 |
First published in 1980. This volume is an indirect product of the activities of the Committee on Television and Social Behavior of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC). This is a collection of essays looking at the entertainment function of television in the United States.
| Author | : Jason Mittell |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 484 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : |
Television and American Culture: An Overview introduces students to the study of television by looking at American television from a cultural perspective. The book is written for intermediate undergraduate and beginning graduate students for a range of television studies courses. Specifically, Mittell discusses television within the following contexts: the economics of the television industry, television's role within American democracy, the formal attributes of a variety of television genres, television as a site of gender and racial identity formation, television's role in everyday life, and the medium's technological and social impacts. The topical arrangement and comprehensive scope of the book differs from other television textbooks, arguing that we must incorporate a range of economic, political, aesthetic, and sociological perspectives to fully comprehend the medium of television.
| Author | : Ken Basin |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 324 |
| Release | : 2018-07-11 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 1351254162 |
In this book, esteemed television executive and Harvard lecturer Ken Basin offers a comprehensive overview of the business, financial, and legal structure of the U.S. television industry, as well as its dealmaking norms. Written for working or aspiring creative professionals who want to better understand the entertainment industry — as well as for executives, agents, managers, and lawyers looking for a reference guide — The Business of Television presents a readable, in-depth introduction to rights and talent negotiations, intellectual property, backend deals, licensing, streaming platforms, international production, and much more. The book also includes breakdowns after each chapter summarizing deal points and points of negotiation, a glossary, a list of referenced cases, and a wealth of real-world examples to help readers put the material into context.
| Author | : Barrie Gunter |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 266 |
| Release | : 2005-07-05 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 1134760876 |
Does violence on TV lead to violent behaviour? How can parents influence children’s viewing? Fears over the effect of television on children have been around since it was invented. The recent explosion in the number of channels and new multimedia entertainment lends a new urgency to the discussion. This completely revised second edition of Children and Television brings the story of children and television right up to date. In addition to presenting the latest research on all of the themes covered in the first edition, it includes a discussion of the new entertainment media now available and a new chapter which examines the role of television in influencing children’s health related attitudes behaviour. Barrie Gunter and Jill McAleer examine the research evidence in to the effects of television on children and their responses to it. They conclude that children are sophisticated viewers and control television far more than it controls them.
| Author | : Jonathan Gray |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 385 |
| Release | : 2009-06-02 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 113525348X |
Television entertainment rules supreme, one of the world’s most important disseminators of information, ideas, and amusement. More than a parade of little figures in a box, it is deeply embedded in everyday life, in how we think, what we think and care about, and who we think and care about it with. But is television entertainment art? Why do so many love it and so many hate or fear it? Does it offer a window to the world, or images of a fake world? How is it political and how does it address us as citizens? What powers does it hold, and what powers do we have over it? Or, for that matter, what is television these days, in an era of rapidly developing technologies, media platforms, and globalization? Written especially for students, Television Entertainment addresses these and other key questions that we regularly ask, or should ask. Jonathan Gray offers a lively and dynamic, thematically based overview with examples from recent and current television, including Lost, reality television, The Sopranos, The Simpsons, political satire, Grey’s Anatomy, The West Wing, soaps, and 24.
| Author | : Jinquan Li |
| Publisher | : Northwestern University Press |
| Total Pages | : 408 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9780810117877 |
This book addresses, as few books in English have, a broad range of topics pertaining to China's expanding media and telecommunications systems. American and Chinese experts in journalism, communication, government, and political science use fieldwork, including participant observations, surveys, and in-depth interviews conducted within media organizations, to provide richly detailed analyses of the issues and of the changing face of media in China.
| Author | : Lesley Henderson |
| Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
| Total Pages | : 208 |
| Release | : 2007-06-06 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 0748630899 |
Why are some controversial issues covered in TV soaps and dramas and not others? How are decisions really made 'behind the scenes'? How do programme makers push boundaries without losing viewers? What do audiences take away from their viewing experience? Does TV fiction have a greater impact on public understandings than TV news? This exciting new book draws on unique empirical data to examine the relationship between popular television fiction and wider society.The book gives lively and engaging insights into how and why socially sensitive story lines were taken up by different TV programmes from the late 1980s to the 2000s. Drawing on a series of case studies of medicine, health, illness and social problems including breast cancer, mental distress, sexual abuse and violence it comprehensively traces the path of storylines from initial conception through to audience reception and uses contemporary examples to link practice to theory. For the first time, this book addresses production and receptio
| Author | : Kathleen Hall Jamieson |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 513 |
| Release | : 2017 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 0190497629 |
On topics from genetic engineering and mad cow disease to vaccination and climate change, this Handbook draws on the insights of 57 leading science of science communication scholars who explore what social scientists know about how citizens come to understand and act on what is known by science.
