Remote Control: Television Audiences and Cultural Power - Hardcover
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Beliefs about television viewing tell us much about our views of gender, the family and society. This book examines new perspectives on the relationship between ideology and television. This book should be of interest to students in media studies, popular culture, mass communications, BBC/film company libraries, advertising specialists.
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Routledge 11.1989., 1989
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, Hardcover/Pappeinband. Condition: Sehr gut. 368 Seiten From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of the ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjähriger Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). Fresh and clean hardcover copy in good condition with original dustjacket. Frisch erhaltenes, sauberes Hardcover-Exemplar in gutem Zustand mit Original-Schutzumschlag. Contents: Preface - The politics of pleasure - Uses of the critical - Postmodernism - Chapter One - Changing paradigms in audience studies - Effects, uses, and decodings - Psychoanalytic theories of the subject - Texts and readings - Contexts, media, and modes of viewing - Genres, pleasures and the politics of consumption - Popular forms: soap opera and American culture - Television and everyday life: the context of viewing - Old perspectives for new - Chapter Two - Bursting bubbles: Soap Opera, audiences, and the limits of genre - Chapter Three - Moments of television: Neither the text nor the audience - The viewer - Television as cultural commodity - The democracy of the television text - Segmentation and syntagmatic gaps - Intertextuality - Time, seriality, and semiotic democracy Heteroglossia - Pleasure, semiosis, and difference - Critical intervention - Chapter Four - Live television and its audiences: Challenges of media reality - Live broadcast as a risk factor - Live broadcast as a choice in programming - Live as an impure broadcast - The choice of topics - Topicality - Topicality as a social condition - The impact of media topicalities - Event story history - Television as part of social power-relations - Showing and telling the event - Live suspense Topicalities and (pseudo-)myths - Catching the moment - Acting audiences - The television community - The representatives of the television community - In the name of the audience - Chapter Five - Wanted: Audiences On the politics of empirical audience studies - Against textual determinism - Academic convergence? - Beyond methodology - Towards interpretative ethnography - Chapter Six - Text and audience - Preliminary: Soap opera and good television - The modes of dispersal of the television text - To conclude - Chapter Seven - Out of the mainstream: Sexual minorities and the mass media - The system is the message - Television as the mainstream - Choices or echoes? - Homosexuals and television: fear and loathing - Colonization: the straight gay - Resistance and opposition - Subversion - In our own voice - Chapter Eight - Soap operas at work - Let's meet at Tressines methodology - The group - A brief guide to soaps on British television - Why do we watch soap operas? - British realism - Pleasure at work - The myth of the passive viewer - A special knowledge Asian culture - Chapter Nine - The media in everyday family life: Some biographical and typological aspects - Chapter Ten Chapter ten Approaching the audience: The elderly - The Bournemouth study - The elderly: Habits of viewing - Case studies: Generational values - Approaching the observer - Notes - Chapter Eleven - On the critical abilities of television viewers - Semantic criticism - Theme - Messages - Archetypes - Syntactic criticism - Genre - Dramatic Function - Business - Pragmatic criticism - Conclusions - Notes - Chapter Twelve Don't treat us like we're so stupid and naive: Toward an ethnography of soap opera viewers - The ethnography of reading - The Oregon audience study - Questions of methodology - Soap operas and everyday life (Eva-Maria Warth) - Text and genre (Hans Borchers) - Resisting the place of the ideal mother (Ellen Seiter and Gabriele Kreutzner) - Postscript: a gendered discourse ISBN 9780415036054 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 546. Seller Inventory # 1272453