Programming our lives : television and American identity / Walter Cummins and George Gordon.
Cummins, Walter M.; Gordon, George G.
2006
PN1992.6 .C863 2006 (Mapit)
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Title Programming our lives : television and American identity / Walter Cummins and George Gordon.
Author Cummins, Walter M.
ISBN 9780275990206 (alk. paper)
0275990206 (alk. paper)
Publication Details Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2006.
Language English
Description xvii, 221 p. ; 25 cm.
Call Number PN1992.6 .C863 2006
Dewey Decimal Classification 302.23/450973
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-212) and index.
Added Author Gordon, George G.
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Introduction : the dominant medium
pt. I. Our personal lives
1. Pictures in our heads : "watching" radio
2. Learning to watch : TV and perception
3. Watching together or alone : uniting and dividing
4. Mainstreaming : how TV creates norms
5. Amateurs performing : "reality" television
6. Airing our lives : broadcast revelations
7. The price of admission : commercials
pt. II. Our democracy
8. Staggering costs : TV and elections
9. Pressure though pictures : governance and TV
10. Bleeding leads : news dissemination
pt. III. Our society
11. Learning from the screen : television and education
12. Doctors and patients : television and medicine
13. Criminal justice : television and the law
14. Financing the game : TV and professional sports
pt. IV. Our world
15. Broadcast cultures : TV in the world
16. Multiplying channels : the proliferation and fragmentation
17. Nothing out of range : the prevalence of TV cameras
18. The future of TV : technology, content, effects
Conclusion
19. American life after sixty years of TV.

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