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UNINA9910450143403321 |
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Ang Ien. |
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Desperately seeking the audience / / Ien Ang |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1991 |
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1-134-94042-4 |
1-280-47832-2 |
9786610478323 |
0-203-13334-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (185 p.) |
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302.2345 |
384.55/1 |
384.551 |
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Europe |
Mass media |
Television viewers |
Television viewers - United States |
Television viewers - Europe |
Journalism & Communications |
Radio & TV Broadcasting |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [186]-199) and index. |
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Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface and acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Institutional knowledge: the need to control; 2 Audience-as-market and audience-as-public; 3 Television audience as taxonomic collective; 4 The limits of discursive control; 5 Commercial knowledge: measuring the audience; 6 In search of the audience commodity; 7 Streamlining 'television audience'; 8 The streamlined audience disrupted: impact of the new technologies; 9 The people meter 'solution'; 10 Revolt of the viewer? The elusive audience |
11 Normative knowledge: the breakdown of the public service ideal12 Britain: the BBC and the loss of the disciplined audience; 13 Netherlands: VARA and the loss of the natural audience; 14 Repairing |
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the loss: the desire for audience information; Conclusions: Understanding television audiencehood; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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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 nature, and argues that our ignorance arises directly out of the biases inherent in prevailing official knowledge about it. She sets out to deconstruct the assumptions of this official knowledge by exploring the territory where it is mainly produced - the |
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UNINA9910455879403321 |
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Autore |
Davies Carole Boyce |
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Titolo |
Black women, writing, and identity : migrations of the subject / / Carole Boyce Davies |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1994 |
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1-134-85523-0 |
1-280-10553-4 |
0-203-20140-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (193 p.) |
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American literature - African American authors - History and criticism |
English literature - Foreign countries - History and criticism |
American literature - Women authors - History and criticism |
English literature - Black authors - History and criticism |
English literature - Women authors - History and criticism |
Identity (Psychology) in literature |
African Americans in literature |
Authorship - Sex differences |
Black people in literature |
Women and literature |
Electronic books. |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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BOOKCOVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; 1 INTRODUCTION: MIGRATORY SUBJECTIVITIES; 2 NEGOTIATING THEORIES OR "GOING A PIECE OF THE WAY WITH THEM"; 3 DECONSTRUCTING AFRICAN FEMALE SUBJECTIVITIES; 4 FROM "POST-COLONIALITY" TO UPRISING TEXTUALITIES; 5 WRITING HOME; 6 MOBILITY, EMBODIMENT AND RESISTANCE; 7 OTHER TONGUES; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX |
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Black Women Writing and Identity is an exciting work by one of the most imaginative and acute writers around. The book explores a complex and fascinating set of interrelated issues, establishing the significance of such wide-ranging subjects as: * re-mapping, re-naming and cultural crossings * tourist ideologies and playful world travelling * gender, heritage and identity * African women's writing and resistance to domination * marginality, effacement and decentering * gender, language and the politics of location Carole Boyce-Davies is at the forefront of |
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