"Conventional wisdom holds that television was a coconspirator in the repressions of Cold War America, that it was a facilitator to the blacklist and handmaiden to McCarthyism. But Thomas Doherty argues that, through the influence of television, America actually became a more op…
Film and television after 9/11
"In [this book], editor Wheeler Winston Dixon and eleven other distinguished film scholars discuss the production, reception, and distribution of Hollywood and foreign films after the terorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and examine how moviemaking has changed to reflect the …
If radio and film were the emblematic media of the Maoist era, television has rapidly established itself as the medium of the 'marketized' China and in the diaspora. In less than two decades, television has become the dominant medium across the Chinese cultural world. This is an…
If radio and film were the emblematic media of the Maoist era, television has rapidly established itself as the medium of the 'marketized' China and in the diaspora. In less than two decades, television has become the dominant medium across the Chinese cultural world. This is an…
"Rather than focusing on live sports broadcasts, this book takes a critical look at sports-themed comedies and dramas, to see how our "authentic" sports affect our national fictions as well. From the character studies that supplement Olympic coverage, to nightly highlight reels,…
Television has always augmented its dramatic and variety programming with sports. After covering wrestling and boxing matches for several years, ABC added the hugely popular Roller Derby between 1949 and 1951, and later, college and pro football. Today, there is a multitude of p…
Building on and extending Pierre Bourdieu's critique of our media-saturated culture, this work presents case studies of such diverse phenomena as media coverage of the AIDS-contaminated blood scandal in France, US youth media activism, and political interview shows on both sides…
Medienökonomie: Print, Fernsehen und Multimedia
"Reality TV restores a crucial, and often absent, element to the critical debate about reality television: the voices of people who watch reality programmes." "The book draws on quantitative and qualitative audience research to understand how viewers categorise the reality genre…