A01=Brian L. Ott
age
Author_Brian L. Ott
book
book demonstrates
Category=JBCT
confronting information
discourse
eq_bestseller
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
equipped
examples
guilt
important socializing force
industrial
life
overload
pace
primetime
technoilliterate
television
times
transition
viewers
Product details
- ISBN 9781405161558
- Weight: 318g
- Dimensions: 155 x 231mm
- Publication Date: 04 Jul 2007
- Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
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.
-
- Examines changes that took place in programming, such as the rapid adoption of cable, the proliferation of content providers, the development of niche marketing, the introduction of high-definition television, the blurring of traditional genres, and the creation of new formats like reality-based programming
- Argues that television programmes of the 1990s afforded viewers a symbolic resource for negotiating the psychological challenges associated with the shift from the Industrial Age to the Information Age
- Explores the ways in which television provided viewers with tools for coming to terms with their fears about living in the fast-paced , increasingly diverse, information-laden society of the 90s
Brian L. Ott is an Associate Professor of Media Studies at Colorado State University. He is an award winning scholar and teacher, who has published widely in the area of media studies.
