Logics of television ; essays in cultural criticism /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Bloomington : Indiana University Press ; London : BFI Books, c1990.
Description:	viii, 307 p. ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Theories of contemporary culture ; v. 11
Subject:	Television broadcasting -- Social aspects. Television broadcasting -- United States. Television broadcasting. Television broadcasting -- Social aspects. United States.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4817878

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Other authors / contributors:	Mellencamp, Patricia.
ISBN:	0253336171 (alk. paper) 0253205824 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:	Papers presented at an international conference held April 12-14m 1988 at the Center for Twentieth Century Studies. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Prologue
Banality in Cultural Studies
Playing at Being American: Games and Tactics
Television: Aesthetics and Audiences
Television in the Family Circle: The Popular Reception of a New Medium
The Seven Dwarfs and the Money Grubbers: The Public Relations Crisis of US Television in the Late 1950s
Why We Don't Count: The Commodity Audience
Techno-Ethics and Tele-Ethics: Three Lives in the Day of Max Headroom
Critical and Textual Hypermasculinity
Superman and the Protective Strength of the Trademark
An Ontology of Everyday Distraction: The Freeway, the Mall, and Television
Information, Crisis, Catastrophe
TV Time and Catastrophe, or Beyond the Pleasure Principle of Television
Representing Television
Contributors
Name Index
Subject Index

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