Overview

The ways in which we watch television tell us much about our views of gender, the family and society. Bringing together the leading experts in the field of audience studies, this book investigates how viewers watch television, and what they think about the programmes they see. Originally published in 1989, the book is divided into two sections which discuss some of the theoretical issues at stake and then present case studies of a wide range of viewers: women office workers, Israeli watchers of Dallas, German families, the elderly, and American daytime soap fans. Contributors from Britain, the United States, Western Europe, Australia and Israel offer a wide range of perspectives, from feminism to post-modernism, and from semiotics to Marxism. ‘Together these essays constitute one of the best possible introductions to the leading edge of research into the phenomenon of television.’ Choice

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Author:   Ellen Seiter ,  Hans Borchers ,  Gabriele Kreutzner ,  Eva-Maria Warth
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138985100

ISBN 10:   1138985104
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   28 February 2016
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Introduction 1. Changing Paradigms in Audience Studies 2. Bursting Bubbles: ""Soap Opera,"" Audiences, and the Limits of Genre 3. Moments of Television: Neither the Text not the Audience 4. Live Television and its Audiences: Challenges of Media Reality 5. Wanted: Audiences. On the Politics of Empirical Audience Studies 6. Text and Audience 7. Out of The Mainstream: Sexual Minorities and the Mass Media 8. Soap Operas at Work 9. The Media in Everyday Family Life: Some Biographical and Typological Aspects 10. Approaching the Audience: The Elderly 11. On the Critical Abilities of Television Viewers 12. ""Don’t Treat Us Like We’re So Stupid and Naïve"": Towards an Ethnography of Soap Opera Viewers"

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