Thinking through television /

Thinking through television /

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Bibliographic Details
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.
Subject:	Television broadcasting -- Social aspects -- United States. Television viewers -- United States. Television broadcasting -- Social aspects. Television viewers. United States. Electronic books.
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 0511151713 9780511151712 9780521584654 0521584655 9780511489488 051148948X 0521585775 9780521585774
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-247) and index. Print version record.
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

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Part I. Conceptions of Television Use
1. Social theory
2. Social science
3. Cultural studies
Part II. Reconceptualising Television Use
4. Sociality and the problem of the subject
5. Components of a viewing culture
Part III. Documenting the Viewing Culture
6. Methodology and the turn to television
7. The practice of viewing
8. A typology of use
Conclusion: the politics of television reconsidered