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1	Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture more books like this by Dr. Henry Jenkins add to wishlist Get a life,' William Shatner told Star Trek fans. Yet, as Textual Poachers argues, fans already have a life,' a complex subculture which draws its resources from commercial culture while also reworking them to serve alternative interests. Rejecting stereotypes of fans as cultural dupes, social misfits, and mindless consumers, Jenkins represents ... see all copies from $19.20! new only from $38.39! \| first editions
2	Hold On, Honey, I'll Take You to the Hospital at Halftime: Confessions of a TV Sports Junkie more books like this by Norman Chad add to wishlist It started 50 years ago with a few TV baseball games. Now, every man who's not out in the woods finding his inner wild man is plunked down in front of a 27-inch diagonal screen watching football, basketball, hockey, darts, the Olympics--anything that even faintly resembles a "sport". This hilarious, biting, incisive book takes a look at the hugely ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	The Audience Studies Reader more books like this by Will Brooker, Brooker & Jermyn (Editor) add to wishlist Has political propaganda ever been effective? To what extent do African-American families interpret their favourite TV show differently from their white neighbours? Are romance novels and teenage magazines reactionary fantasies or do they provide women with an important space of their own? The Audience Studies Reader brings together key writings ... see all copies from $29.01! new only from $31.55! \| SVS
4	The Ideological Octopus more books like this by Justin Lewis add to wishlist At the beginning of the century, two activities dominated most people's lives: working and sleeping. As the end of the century approaches, we can add a third: watching television. We know remarkably little about watching TV, despite its predominance and the forty years of research it has generated. How, in the most precise and intricate sense, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $23.45! \| first editions
5	Ratings Analysis: The Theory and Practice of Audience Research more books like this by James G Webster, Patricia F Phalen, Professor Lawrence W Lichty add to wishlist "Ratings Analysis: The Theory and Practice of Audience Research" provides a thorough and up-to-date presentation of the ratings industry and analysis processes. It serves as a practical guide for conducting audience research, offering readers the tools for becoming informed and discriminating consumers of audience information, from broadcasting to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $28.50! \| first editions \| SVS
6	The Talking Cure: TV Talk Shows and Women more books like this by Jane Shattuc, M Shattuc Jane add to wishlist The Talking Cure examines four nationally syndicated television talk shows: Donahue, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Geraldo and Sally Jessy Raphael; which are primarily devoted to feminine culture and issues. These programs have recently surpassed soap operas as the most popular daytime programming (Oprah garnering 19 million viewers per show). They ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.90! \| first editions
7	Thinking Through Television more books like this by Ron Lembo, Professor Jeffrey C Alexander (Editor), Professor Steven Seidman (Editor) add to wishlist This original and engaging book investigates American television viewing habits as a distinct cultural form. Based on an empirical study of the day-to-day use of television by working people, it develops a unique theoretical approach integrating cultural sociology, post modernism and the literature of media effects to explore the way in which ... see all copies from $2.77! new only from $21.00! \| first editions
8	Family Television: Cultural Power and Domestic Leisure more books like this by David Morley add to wishlist ..".detailed study of television viewing among UK families from different cultural backgrounds.'--"Leisure, Recreation and Tourism Abstracts" This title available in eBook format. Click here for more information. Visit our eBookstore at: www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.99! \| first editions \| SVS
9	O. J. Simpson Facts and Fictions: News Rituals in the Construction of Reality more books like this by Darnell M Hunt add to wishlist Abundant popular discourses surround the O. J. Simpson double murder case. By contrast, Darnell M. Hunt scrutinizes these very discourses in order to further our understanding of the interests underlying them. Exploring the relationships between O. J.'s trial, the social location of television viewers (their race, gender and class) and everyday ... see all copies from $3.30! new only from $27.50! \| first editions
10	Television, Ethnicity and Cultural Change more books like this by Marie Gillespie add to wishlist For ethnic minorities' in Britain, broadcast TV provides powerful representations of national and western' culture. In Southall - which has the largest population of South Asians' outside the Indian sub-continent - the VCR furnishes Hindi films, sacred soaps' such as the Mahabharata, and family videos of rites of passage, as well as mainstream ... see all copies from $3.18! new only from $30.53! \| SVS
11 view cover	The Making of American Audiences: From Stage to Television, 1750-1990 more books like this by Richard Butsch add to wishlist In The Making of American Audiences, Richard Butsch provides a comprehensive survey of American entertainment audiences from the colonial period to the modern day. Providing coverage of theatre, opera, vaudeville, minstrelsy, movies, radio and television, he examines the evolution of audience practices as each genre supplanted another as the ... see all copies from $9.46! new only from $32.54! \| SVS
12 view cover	Television and the Quality of Life: How Viewing Shapes Everyday Experience more books like this by Robert William Kubey, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi add to wishlist Employing a unique research methodology that enables people to report on their normal activities as they occur, the authors examine how people actually use and experience television -- and how television viewing both contributes to and detracts from the quality of everyday life. Studied within the natural context of everyday living, and drawing ... see all copies from $3.00! new only from $41.90! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	TV Living: Television, Culture and Everyday Life more books like this by David Gauntlett, Annette Hill, Gauntlett David add to wishlist TV Living presents the findings of a British Film Institute project in which 500 participants completed detailed questionnaire-diaries over a five year period, writing some three and a half million words on their lives, their television watching, and the relationship between the two. Gauntlett and Hill use this extensive data to explore some of ... see all copies from $9.02! new only from $19.52! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Desperately Seeking the Audience more books like this by Ien Ang add to wishlist Millions of people all over the world are avid members of the television audience. Yet, despite the central place television occupies in contemporary culture, our understanding of its complex and dynamic role in everyday life remains surprisingly limited. Focusing on the television audience, Ien Ang asks why we understand so little about its ... see all copies from $10.07! new only from $36.04! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Global Television more books like this by Chris Barker add to wishlist In this book Chris Barker situates television as a cultural phenomenon in the context of global modernity. Barker offers the first introductory multidimensional and multiperspectival approach to the understanding of television. In so doing, Barker connects with a number of significant current debates in both media and cultural studies, providing ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.50! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Oxford Television Studies - Television and New Media Audiences more books like this by Ellen Seiter add to wishlist Why is talk about television forbidden at certain schools? Why does a mother feel guilty about watching Star Trek in front of her four-year-old child? Why would retired men turn to daytime soap operas for entertainment? Cliches about television mask the complexity of our relationship to media technologies. Through case studies, the author explains ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
17 view cover	Why Viewers Watch: A Reappraisal of Television's Effects more books like this by Dr. Jib Fowles add to wishlist Substantially updated, this revised edition of Why Viewers Watch presents recent research, overlooked past studies and fresh survey data to offer an alternative perspective on the role of television and how it serves its viewers psychologically. Fowles argues that television is a 'grandly therapeutic force' - a tension-reliever of great benefit to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $49.43! \| SVS
18 view cover	Talk on Televison more books like this by Sonia M Livingstone, Livingstone Son, Peter Lunt add to wishlist Not only is everyday conversation increasingly dependent on television, but more and more people are appearing on television to discuss social and personal issues. Is any public good served by these programmes or are they simply trashy entertainment which fills the schedules cheaply? "Talk on Television" examines the value and significance of ... see all copies from $3.63! new only from $13.88! \| SVS
19 view cover	Enlightened Racism: The Cosby Show, Audiences, and the Myth of the American Dream more books like this by Sut Jhally, Justin M Lewis add to wishlist The Cosby Show needs little introduction to most people familiar with American popular culture. It is a show with immense and universal appeal. Even so, most debates about the significance of the program have failed to take into account one of the more important elements of its successits viewers. Through a major study of the audiences of The ... see all copies from $3.30! new only from $29.95! \| SVS
20 view cover	Consuming Television: Television and Its Audiences more books like this by Dr. Bob Mullan add to wishlist Consuming Television is a textbook designed to introduce students to the role of television in contemporary society and to encourage an understanding of what contemporary audiences are all about. Although the central focus of the book is on audiences, the coverage is extended to offer a unique examination of the actual programmes themselves. In ... see all copies from $5.28! new only from $12.70! \| SVS
21	Evil Eye Unaccept Face more books like this by Guy L Playfair add to wishlist Television-watching has become an everyday activity in Britain, but according to the author, few viewers give the activity much thought. This study examines the effects of the medium on our lives, our views and on children. It also examines the effects of television violence on society. see all copies from $43.96!
22 view cover	Private Screenings: Television and the Female Consumer more books like this by Lynn Spigel add to wishlist see all copies from $3.85! new only from $16.95! \| first editions
23 view cover	Studying Audiences: The Shock of the Real more books like this by Vir Nightingale, Nightingale Vir add to wishlist This study presents a critical overview of two decades of research into the television audience. With the development of ethnographic research methods, hailed by Stuart Hall as "a new and exciting phase" in audience research, researchers turned their critical attention to groups of "ordinary people" watching television, combining interviews and ... see all copies from $8.91! new only from $28.92! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	African American Viewers and the Black Situation Comedy: Situating Racial Humor more books like this by Robin R Means Coleman, Robin R Means Coleman, Means add to wishlist Providing new insight into key debates over race and representation in the media, this ethnographic study explores the ways in which African Americans have been depicted in Black situation comedies - from the 1950s Beulah to contemporary series like Martin and Living Single . As scholars increasingly turn their attention to how audiences interpret ... see all copies from $15.81! new only from $40.80! \| first editions
25 view cover	Beverly Hills, 90210: Television, Gender and Identity more books like this by E Graham McKinley add to wishlist In 1990 the fledgling Fox television network debuted its prime-time soap opera Beverly Hills, 90210, which was intended to appeal to viewers in their late teens and early twenties. Before long, not only did the network have a genuine hit with a lar see all copies from $7.95! new only from $8.50! \| first editions \| SVS

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