Thinking through television /

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Author / Creator:Lembo, Ron.
Imprint:Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Description:1 online resource (xiii, 254 pages)
Language:English
Series:Cambridge cultural social studies
Cambridge cultural social studies.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11117033
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ISBN:0511011865
9780511011863
0511038895
9780511038891
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9780511151712
9780521584654
0521584655
9780511489488
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-247) and index.
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Summary:"This 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, postmodernism, and the literature of media effects to explore the ways in which people give meaning to their viewing practices. While recognising the power of television, it also emphasises the importance of the social and political factors which affect the lives of individual viewers, showing how the interaction between the two can result in a disengagement with corporately produced culture at the same time as an appropriation of the images themselves into people's lives. Accessibly written and at the cutting edge of Cultural Studies and television research, this book is essential reading for students and academics in Cultural Studies, television research, and Media and Communication Studies."--Jacket.
Other form:Print version: Lembo, Ron. Thinking through television. Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2000 0521584655