UID:
almafu_9959328470502883
Format:
1 online resource (xiv, 199 pages)
ISBN:
9780470692462
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0470692464
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9780470766378
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0470766379
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1281069582
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9781281069580
Content:
Television is one of the most important socializing forces in contemporary culture. This book is a cultural history of prime-time television in America during the 1990s. Documenting a period when televisions underwent several dramatic changes, this book examines TV as a tool that helped viewers come to terms with the new, fast paced information age.
Note:
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Television and Social Change -- The Times They Are a45;Changin8217; -- Television as Public Discourse -- Chapter 2 Life in the Information Age -- The Information Explosion -- Society through the Lens of Technocapitalism -- Social Anxieties in the Information Age -- Chapter 3 Hyperconscious Television -- Embracing 8216;the Future8217;58; The Attitude of Yes -- The Simpsons as Exemplar -- Symbolic Equipments in Hyperconscious TV -- Chapter 4 Nostalgia Television -- Celebrating 8216;the Past8217;58; The Attitude of No -- Dr46; Quinn44; Medicine Woman as Exemplar -- Symbolic Equipments in Nostalgia TV -- Chapter 5 Television and the Future -- 40;Re41;Viewing the Small Screen -- Life and Television in the Twenty45;First Century -- The Next Great Paradigm Shift63; -- References -- Index -- Last Page.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Ott, Brian L. Small screen. Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2007 ISBN 9781405161541
Additional Edition:
ISBN 140516154X
Language:
English
Keywords:
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
DOI:
10.1002/9780470692462
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470692462
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470692462
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470692462
