Entertaining television - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Entertaining television write by Su Holmes. This book was released on 2015-11-01. Entertaining television available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Entertaining television challenges the idea that the BBC in the 1950s was elitist and ‘staid’, upholding Reithian values in a paternalistic, even patronising way. By focusing on a number of (often controversial) programme case studies – such as the soap opera, the quiz/ game show, the ‘problem’ show and programmes dealing with celebrity culture - Su Holmes demonstrates how BBC television surprisingly explored popular interests and desires. She also uncovers a number of remarkable connections with programmes and topics at the forefront of television today, ranging from talk shows, 'Reality TV', even to our contemporary obsession with celebrity. The book is iconclastic, percipient and grounded in archival research, and will be of use to anyone studying television history.
Television Entertainment
Television Entertainment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Television Entertainment write by Jonathan Gray. This book was released on 2009-06-02. Television Entertainment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Television entertainment rules supreme, one of the world’s most important disseminators of information, ideas, and amusement. More than a parade of little figures in a box, it is deeply embedded in everyday life, in how we think, what we think and care about, and who we think and care about it with. But is television entertainment art? Why do so many love it and so many hate or fear it? Does it offer a window to the world, or images of a fake world? How is it political and how does it address us as citizens? What powers does it hold, and what powers do we have over it? Or, for that matter, what is television these days, in an era of rapidly developing technologies, media platforms, and globalization? Written especially for students, Television Entertainment addresses these and other key questions that we regularly ask, or should ask. Jonathan Gray offers a lively and dynamic, thematically based overview with examples from recent and current television, including Lost, reality television, The Sopranos, The Simpsons, political satire, Grey’s Anatomy, The West Wing, soaps, and 24.
Entertaining Politics
Entertaining Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Entertaining Politics write by Jeffrey P. Jones. This book was released on 2010-12-28. Entertaining Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this completely revised and updated edition (including eight new chapters), Jeffrey Jones charts the evolution and maturation of political entertainment television by examining The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report, Politically Incorrect/Real Time with Bill Maher, and Michael Moore's TV Nation and The Awful Truth. This volume investigates how and why these shows have been central locations for the critique of political and economic power and an important resource for citizens during numerous political crises. In an age of Truthiness, fake news and humorous political talk have proven themselves viable forms of alternative reporting and critical means for ascertaining truth, and in the process, questioning the legitimacy of news media's role as the primary mediator of political life. The book also addresses the persistent claims that these programs have cynical effects and create misinformed young citizens, demonstrating instead how such programming provides for an informed, active, and meaningful citizenship. The new edition takes account of the many changes that have occurred in television and political culture since Entertaining Politics' initial release.
Entertaining Politics
Entertaining Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Entertaining Politics write by Jeffrey P. Jones. This book was released on 2005. Entertaining Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Contrary to arguments that television is detrimental to democracy, Entertaining Politics explores the role of new political television in shaping a changing civic culture. Jeffrey P. Jones shows how viewers understand and make use of the increasingly blurred lines between 'serious' and 'entertainment' programming and argues that alarmist critics who predict the end of politics in the age of television have misconstrued the role of the medium and the commitment of audiences to both TV and public life. Visit our website for sample chapters!
The Entertainment Functions of Television
The Entertainment Functions of Television - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Entertainment Functions of Television write by P. H. Tannenbaum. This book was released on 2014-03-18. The Entertainment Functions of Television available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First published in 1980. This volume is an indirect product of the activities of the Committee on Television and Social Behavior of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC). This is a collection of essays looking at the entertainment function of television in the United States.
