The Psychology of the Simpsons: D'Oh! more books like this

by Alan Brown (Editor), Chris Logan (Editor)

Psychologists turn their attention to "The Simpsons*," one of America's most popular and beloved shows, in these essays that explore the functions and dysfunctions of the show's characters.

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Two Aspirins and a Comedy: How Television Can Enhance Health and Society more books like this

by Metta Spencer

Can television be a positive force in society? Can socially conscious entertainment change the world? "Two Aspirins and a Comedy" asks these questions and more and arrives at surprising and unconventional answers. The very real social and political ramifications of books like "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and films such as "Gandhi" led sociologist Metta ...

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Tuning in Trouble: Talk TV's Destructive Impact on Mental Health more books like this

by Jeanne Heaton, Nona L Wilson

This text reveals the harmful and destructive impact phenomenally popular TV talk shows have on their guests and viewers alike. It argues that by sensationalizing issues, staging brutal and traumatic confrontations, exploiting stereotypes of women, men and minorities, then alleging that such intense ten-minute psychodramas actually help people - ...

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MIS/Takes: Acrhetype, Myth and Identity in Screen Fiction more books like this

by Terrie Waddell

"Mis/takes" departs from the bulk of screen discourse by applying Jungian and post-Jungian ideas on unconscious processes to popular film and television. This perspective offers a rich insight into the intertextual fusing and reworking of myth in contemporary screen texts. By examining the function of archetypal motifs in cinema and television, ...

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Television Violence and the Adolescent Boy more books like this

by William A. Belson

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Echographies of Television more books like this

by Professor Jacques Derrida, Bernard Stiegler, Jennifer Bajorek (Translator)

In this important new book, Jacques Derrida talks with Bernard Stiegler about the effect of teletechnologies on our philosophical and political moment. Improvising before a camera, the two philosophers are confronted by the very technologies they discuss and so are forced to address all the more directly the urgent questions that they raise. What ...

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A Measure of Uncertainty: The Effects of the Mass Media more books like this

by Guy Cumberbatch, Dennis Howitt

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Learning from Television: Psychological and Educational Research more books like this

by Michael J A Howe

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Television and Social Behavior: Beyond Violence and Children more books like this

by Stephen B Withey (Editor), Mr. Ronald P Abeles (Editor)

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Dynamics of television more books like this

by Jon Baggaley, Steve Duck

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Watching TV Is Not Required: Thinking about Media and Thinking about Thinking more books like this

by Bernard McGrane

This book uses a social world -- today's undergraduate students' ubiquitous everyday experience of television -- as a vehicle for helping awaken students to the true possibilities for learning and their responsibilities inherent in achieving those goals. The book also introduces students to the social construction of reality embedded in the ...

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Television and social control more books like this

by Mallory Wober, Barrie Gunter

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Psychology of the TV image more books like this

by Jon Baggaley, Margaret Ferguson, Philip Brooks

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