Television Entertainment

Name: Television Entertainment
Price: 2.54 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780415772242

ISBN-10: 0415772249

ISBN-13: 9780415772242

Edition: 2008

Authors: Jonathan Gray

List price: $42.95

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Marketplace

3 new & used from $2.54

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

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…

Book details

List price: $42.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 4/3/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.26" wide x 9.17" long x 0.47" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



List of illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction: what is television entertainment?



Art with strings attached: creativity, innovation, and industry



Broadcasting identities: affect, fantasy, and meaning



Television unboxed: expansion, overflow, and synergy



Keeping it real: reality and representation



Plugging in: politics and citizenship



Channel interference: television and power


Notes


Bibliography


Index