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Author : Conrad Phillip Kottak
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 28,79 MB
Release : 2016-06-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1315421925
A landmark comparative study (U.S. and Brazil) of television's social and cultural effects on human behavior; updated edition has a new introduction bringing the study up to the present.
Author : Todd Gitlin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 23,29 MB
Release : 2005-08-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1134886586
Prime time: those precious few hours every night when the three major television networks garner millions of dollars while tens of millions of Americans tune in. Inside Prime Time is a classic study of the workings of the Hollywood television industry, newly available with an updated introduction. Inside Prime Time takes us behind the scenes to reveal how prime-time shows get on the air, stay on the air, and are shaped by the political and cultural climate of their times. It provides an ethnography of the world of American commercial television, an analysis of that world's unwritten rules, and the most extensive study of the industry ever made.
Author : Michael Suman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 36,25 MB
Release : 1997-10-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0313025223
How is religion portrayed on prime time entertainment television and what effect does this have on our society? This book brings together the opinions of all the important factions involved in this important public policy debate, including religious figures (Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, and Freethinkers—liberal and conservative), academics, media critics and journalists, and representatives of the entertainment industry. The debate provides contrasting views on how much and what type of religion should be on entertainment television and what relationship this has with the health of our society. Many contributors also offer strategies for how to reform the present situation. This is an important work that delineates the debate for the layperson as well as researchers, scholars, and policymakers.
Author : Kathryn C. Montgomery
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 11,4 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0195362608
Author : Kathryn C. Montgomery
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 47,52 MB
Release : 1989-03-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0198021658
Offering the first book-length exploration of network television's relations with advocacy groups, Kathryn C. Montgomery presents a comprehensive picture of the impact of organized pressure on prime-time TV. She vividly describes, for example, how the Catholic Church campaigned against Maude's abortion on the TV show, Maude; how outraged actors mobilized a national protest against the portrayal of blacks in the TV miniseries, Beulah Land; and how the Moral Majority waged a sophisticated campaign to "clean up TV," by threatening to boycott advertisers. Exposing the inner workings of network television as no other book has done, Montgomery's study demonstrates how behind-the-scenes struggles have shaped the images, messages, and values that enter people's homes every night. The book also raises critical questions about television's role in our society and its responsibility to the American public.
Author : Jane Fonda
Publisher : Random House Incorporated
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 13,79 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1400066972
The Oscar-winning actress, fitness expert and political activist outlines a roadmap for seniors who are experiencing unprecedented rates of longevity, sharing practical advice on everything from fitness and sexuality to coming to terms with past mistakes and embracing a spiritual life.
Author : Stephen Tropiano
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 35,4 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781557835574
A comprehensive study of homosexuality on television from the 1950s to 2002. Through an analysis of over 300 television episodes, made-for-TV movies, and mini-series, this fascinating account of the evolution of the portrayal of gay men and lesbians offers an in-depth look at how four major television genres--medical series, police/ detective shows, drama, and situation comedies--approached the subject of homosexuality. From 1950s talk shows that tackled the "problem" of homosexuality to Ellen DeGeneres's historic coming-out in 1997, it reveals how television's treatment of homosexuality has reflected and reinforced society's ignorance and fear of gay men, lesbians, and transgender people, and celebrates the programs that broke new ground in their sensitive, enlightened approach to homosexuality and gay-related themes and issues, such as homophobia, gay-bashing, and AIDS.--From publisher description.
Author : Marc Freedman
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 47,91 MB
Release : 2008-08-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0786724188
Over the next three decades, the number of Americans over fifty will double, swelling to more than a quarter of the population. Already we are living thirty years longer than a century ago, with further gains expected in the coming years. The end result is a new stage of life, one as long or longer than childhood or middle age in duration, and one spent in unprecedented good health. Yet, as individuals, and as a society, we've shown little imagination or wisdom in using this great gift of a third age. Marc Freedman identifies the new longevity as not a problem to be solved, but an opportunity to be seized-provided we can engage the experience, talent, and idealism of older Americans. At a juncture when the middle-generation faces a time-famine, struggling to simultaneously raise kids and work long hours on the job, the older generation is awash in free time, poised to succeed women as the trustees of civic life in this country. In the process they stand to find new meaning and purpose in their lives, and abandon the limbo-like state unfulfilling for so many older individuals. Freedman argues that the aging phenomenon, the massive transformation that many portray as our downfall, may in fact be our best hope for renewal as a nation.
Author : S. Robert Lichter
Publisher : Regnery Publishing
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 49,84 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Law
ISBN :
The Lichter's and Rothman have laid bare TV's social agenda. This book is insightful, fair-minded, and always interesting.--Fred Barnes, The New Republic
Author : Victoria E. Johnson
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,40 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0814742939
Winner of the 2009 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Katherine Singer Kovacs Book Award The Midwest of popular imagination is a "Heartland" characterized by traditional cultural values and mass market dispositions. Whether cast positively —; as authentic, pastoral, populist, hardworking, and all-American—or negatively—as backward, narrow–minded, unsophisticated, conservative, and out-of-touch—the myth of the Heartland endures. Heartland TV examines the centrality of this myth to television's promotion and development, programming and marketing appeals, and public debates over the medium's and its audience's cultural worth. Victoria E. Johnson investigates how the "square" image of the heartland has been ritually recuperated on prime time television, from The Lawrence Welk Show in the 1950s, to documentary specials in the 1960s, to The Mary Tyler Moore Show in the 1970s, to Ellen in the 1990s. She also examines news specials on the Oklahoma City bombing to reveal how that city has been inscribed as the epitome of a timeless, pastoral heartland, and concludes with an analysis of network branding practices and appeals to an imagined "red state" audience. Johnson argues that non-white, queer, and urban culture is consistently erased from depictions of the Midwest in order to reinforce its "reassuring" image as white and straight. Through analyses of policy, industry discourse, and case studies of specific shows, Heartland TV exposes the cultural function of the Midwest as a site of national transference and disavowal with regard to race, sexuality, and citizenship ideals.