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ISBN10: 0195306678, ISBN13: 9780195306675, [publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, New York] Softcover Paperback. To understand American popular culture, we need to come to grips with the enormous role that television has played in shaping that culture over the past sixty years. In this timely and provocative book, Jason Mittell provides students with a uniquely thorough look at the medium of television. Exploring television at once as a technological medium, an economic system, a facet of democracy, and a part of everyday life, this landmark text usesnumerous sidebars and case studies to demonstrate the past, immediate, and far-reaching effects of American culture on television--and television's influence on American culture. Arranged topically, thebook provides a broad historical overview of television while also honing in on such finer points as the formal attributes of its various genres and its role in gender and racial identity formation. Replete with examples, this pedagogically rich text includes many end-of-chapter case studies and narratives with suggestions for further reading--and, appropriately, viewing. Illustrations and photographs--primarily DVD grabs--contextualize historical footage and oldertelevision programs that may not be familiar to younger students. A multi-disciplinary approach to American television, Television and American Culture is ideal for an array ofintermediate undergraduate- and beginning graduate-level courses, including: * ...

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ISBN10: 0195306678, ISBN13: 9780195306675, [publisher: Oxford University Press, USA] Softcover 1st edition. 450 pages. 9.10x6.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.
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ISBN10: 0195306678, ISBN13: 9780195306675, [publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, New York] Softcover Paperback. To understand American popular culture, we need to come to grips with the enormous role that television has played in shaping that culture over the past sixty years. In this timely and provocative book, Jason Mittell provides students with a uniquely thorough look at the medium of television. Exploring television at once as a technological medium, an economic system, a facet of democracy, and a part of everyday life, this landmark text usesnumerous sidebars and case studies to demonstrate the past, immediate, and far-reaching effects of American culture on television--and television's influence on American culture. Arranged topically, thebook provides a broad historical overview of television while also honing in on such finer points as the formal attributes of its various genres and its role in gender and racial identity formation. Replete with examples, this pedagogically rich text includes many end-of-chapter case studies and narratives with suggestions for further reading--and, appropriately, viewing. Illustrations and photographs--primarily DVD grabs--contextualize historical footage and oldertelevision programs that may not be familiar to younger students. A multi-disciplinary approach to American television, Television and American Culture is ideal for an array ofintermediate undergraduate- and beginning graduate-level courses, including: * ...
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