Television and American Culture
ISBN: 9780195306675 | 0195306678
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 3/18/2009
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To understand American popular culture, we need to come to grips with the enormous role that television has played in shaping that culture over the past sixty years. In this timely and provocative book, Jason Mittell provides students with a uniquely thorough look at the medium of television. Exploring television at once as a technological medium, an economic system, a facet of democracy, and a part of everyday life, this landmark text uses numerous sidebars and case studies to demonstrate the past, immediate, and far-reaching effects of Americ... MORE
| Introduction: Why Television? | |
| Television Institutions | |
| Exchanging Programming | |
| Exchanging Audiences | |
| Serving the Public Interest | |
| Televised Citizenship | |
| Television Meanings | |
| Making Meanings | |
| Telling Television Stories | |
| Screening America | |
| Representing Identity | |
| ... MORE | |
| Viewing Television | |
| Television for Children | |
| Television's Transforming Technologies | |
| Conclusion: American Television in a Global Context | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
Jason Mittell is Associate Professor of American Studies and Film & Media Culture at Middlebury College. He is the author of Genre and Television: From Cop Shows to Cartoons in American Culture (2004), numerous journal essays and book chapters, and the blog, "Just TV."
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