1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910463087903321

Autore

Helms Cynthia

Titolo

An intriguing life [[electronic resource] ] : a memoir of war, Washington, and marriage to an American spymaster / / Cynthia Helms, with Chris Black

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2013

ISBN

1-283-94038-8

1-4422-2132-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BlackChristine M

Disciplina

955/.05092

B

Soggetti

Political culture - Washington (D.C.) - History - 20th century

Women immigrants - United States

World War, 1939-1945 - Participation, Female

Electronic books.

England Biography

Washington (D.C.) Biography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; 1  In Search of a Life of My Own; 2  Maldon; 3  World War II and the Boat Crew Wrens; 4  Coming to America; 5  Annus Horribilis; 6  Mrs. Richard Helms; 7  Two Oaths; 8  Exploring the World; 9  The Legal Case; 10  Life Goes On; Acknowledgments; Index; About the Authors

Sommario/riassunto

From wartime England to Nixon's America and beyond, Cynthia Helms was witness to some of the seminal events of our time-Vietnam, Watergate, and especially the demoralization of the CIA in the 1970s for political purposes. Opening with her feminist "epiphany" in 1968 (the annus horribilus as she describes it) that led her to end her first marriage of 24 years, this memoir reveals a world where appearances always had to be questioned, where rumors and gossip carried the weight of intrigue. </



2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996202204103316

Autore

Morley David <1949-, >

Titolo

Television, audiences, and cultural studies / / David Morley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1992

ISBN

1-134-93768-7

1-138-17301-0

1-134-93769-5

1-280-05629-0

0-203-39835-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (331 p.)

Disciplina

302.23/45

302.2345

Soggetti

Television broadcasting - Social aspects

Television viewers - Research

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 (p. [297]-311) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Theoretical frameworks; Television audience research: a critical history; Psychoanalytic theories: texts, readers and subjects; Class, ideology and interpretation; Interpreting television: the Nationwide audience; The 'Nationwide' Audience: a critical postscript; Gender, domestic leisure and viewing practices; Research development: from 'decoding' to viewing context; The gendered framework of family viewing; From Family Television to a sociology of media consumption; Methodological issues

Towards an ethnography of the television audienceTelevision, technology and consumption; Domestic communication: technologies and meanings (with Roger Silverstone); The consumption of television as a commodity; Private worlds and gendered technologies; Between the private and the public; The construction of everyday life: political communication and domestic media; Where the global meets the local: notes from the sitting-room; Notes; Bibliography; Index



Sommario/riassunto

Television, Audiences and Cultural Studies presents a multi-faceted exploration of audience research, in which David Morley draws on a rich body of empirical work to examine the emergence, development and future of television audience research. In addition to providing an introductory overview from a cultural studies perspective, David Morley questions how class and cultural differences can affect how we interpret television, the significance of gender in the dynamics of domestic media consumption, how the media construct the `national family', and how small-scale ethnographic stu