Viewers Like You [[electronic resource] ] : How Public TV Failed the People
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| Autore: |
Oullette Laurie
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| Titolo: |
Viewers Like You [[electronic resource] ] : How Public TV Failed the People
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Columbia University Press, 2002 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (299 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 302.23450973 |
| 384.55/4/0973 | |
| 384.5540973 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Elite (Social sciences) -- United States -- History |
| Ideology -- United States -- History | |
| Public television -- United States -- History | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Cultural Contradictions of Public Television; 1. Oasis of the Vast Wasteland; 2. The Quest to Cultivate; 3. TV Viewing as Good Citizenship; 4. Something for Everyone; 5. Radicalizing Middle America; Epilogue: Public Television, Popularity, and Cultural Justice; Notes; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | How ""public"" is public television if only a small percentage of the American people tune in on a regular basis? When public television addresses ""viewers like you,"" just who are you? Despite the current of frustration with commercial television that runs through American life, most TV viewers bypass the redemptive ""oasis of the wasteland"" represented by PBS and turn to the sitcoms, soap operas, music videos, game shows, weekly dramas, and popular news programs produced by the culture industries. Viewers Like You? traces the history of public broadcasting in the United States, questi |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Viewers Like You |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 996248217503316 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. di Salerno |
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