Prime-Time Society

An Anthropological Analysis of Television and Culture, Updated Edition

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

AvConrad Phillip Kottak

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A landmark comparative study (U.S. and Brazil) of television's social and cultural effects on human behavior. The Updated Edition brings forward the author’s research on this topic since the original volume was published in 1990 with an extensive new Introduction.

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Utgivningsdatum2009-12-15
Mått165 x 234 x undefined mm
Vikt530 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor283
FörlagLeft Coast Press Inc
ISBN9781598743692

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Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik
Medievetenskap inom Samhälle och politik

partOne Television and Culture; chapterOne Television and Cultural Behavior; chapterTwo Studying Television; partTwo The National Level; chapterThree Censors and Gatekeepers; chapterFour Telenovelas, Mass Culture, and National Identity; chapterFive Cultural Contrasts in Prime-Time Society; chapterSix Competition, Achievement, and Information; chapterSeven What's News: Crime, Violence, and the Stranger; partThree The Local Level; chapterEight The Field Sites; chapterNine Television's Social Impact; chapterTen Television's Impact on Attitudes, Fears, Values, Images, and Consumerism; chapterEleven Festivals, Celebrations, and Gift-Giving; chapterTwelve Television and Modern Life; Chapter 13 Epilogue: Stage V '“ The Couch Potato Strikes Back;

"The reader will appreciate Prime-Time Society, which is written in a clear style.[it] commands attention because, for the first time it discusses a series of question that are fundamental to television and to modern society." -From the Foreword by Roberto DaMatta, University of Notre Dame "An extremely interesting and ambitious research project..Kottak is correct in concluding that no serious study of modern society can ignore the long-term effects of television." - American Anthropologist