Living Room Wars: Rethinking Media Audiences for a Postmodern World - Softcover

Ang, Ien

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415128013 ISBN 13: 9780415128018

Publisher: Routledge, 1996

Synopsis

This brings together Ien Ang's recent writings on television audiences and, in response to recent criticisms of cultural studies, argues that it is possible to study audience pleasures and popular television in a way that is not naively populist.

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Review:

...Ang engages with most of the major questions and theories...producing not only a major restatement f her wn important position, but also a unique statement of the state of the field. This is a book no-one interested in contemporary media culture will ignore.

Synopsis:

This work brings together Ien Ang's recent writings on media audiences to ask what it means to live in a world saturated by media. What does our media audiencehood say about our everyday lives and social relations, and how does it illuminate the condition of contemporary culture?;The author suggests that we cannot understand media audiences without deconstructing the category of "audience" itself as an institutional and discursive construct. It aims to throw light on some of the complexities of media consumption in a postmodern world, including those related to gender politics and the globalization of culture.;The text points to the inherently contradictory nature of the media's role in shaping our identities, fantasies and pleasures, imbricated as they are in the exigencies of capitalist consumption and the institutions of the modern nation-state.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0415128013
• ISBN 13: 9780415128018
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208