1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450143403321

Autore

Ang Ien.

Titolo

Desperately seeking the audience / / Ien Ang

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1991

ISBN

1-134-94042-4

1-280-47832-2

9786610478323

0-203-13334-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (185 p.)

Disciplina

302.2345

384.55/1

384.551

Soggetti

Europe

Mass media

Television viewers

Television viewers - United States

Television viewers - Europe

Journalism & Communications

Radio & TV Broadcasting

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [186]-199) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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



the loss: the desire for audience information; Conclusions: Understanding television audiencehood; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910455879403321

Autore

Davies Carole Boyce

Titolo

Black women, writing, and identity : migrations of the subject / / Carole Boyce Davies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1994

ISBN

1-134-85523-0

1-280-10553-4

0-203-20140-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (193 p.)

Disciplina

810.9/9287/08996073

Soggetti

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.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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