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The Nationwide television studies / David Morley and Charlotte Brunsdon.
Van Pelt Library PN1992.77.N28 M67 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Morley, David, 1949-
- Series:
- Routledge research in cultural and media studies ; 6.
- Routledge research in cultural and media studies ; 6
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nationwide (Television program).
- Physical Description:
- ix, 326 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.
- Summary:
- This book brings together for the first time David Morley and Charlotte Brunsdon's classic texts "Everyday Television: Nationwide" and "The Nationwide Audience" originally published in 1978 and 1980.
- Contents:
- Part I Everyday Television: Nationwide (1978) / Charlotte Brunsdon, David Morley 19
- 1 Going Nationwide 25
- 2 The World of Nationwide Discourse 1975-7 35
- 3 Linking and Framing: Nationwide in Action 19/5/76 62
- 4 'A nation of families ...' 88
- Part II The Nationwide Audience: Structure and Decoding (1980) / David Morley 111
- 1 Audience Research: The Traditional Paradigms 115
- 2 'What people do with the media': Uses, Gratifications, Meanings 126
- 3 Classes, Codes, Correspondences 131
- 4 Problems of Technique and Method 138
- 5 Responses to Nationwide 152
- 6 Comparative Analysis of Differential Group Decodings 257
- 7 Decoding Television: Theorising Determinations 271
- 'It's all just codswallop' / Michael Barratt 295
- 'A Nation Wooed' / John O. Thompson 296
- Review of Everyday Television: 'Nationwide' / Graham Wade 304
- 'Obfuscated by epiphenomena' / Michael Tracey 306
- Review of The 'Nationwide' Audience / John Corner 312.
- Notes:
- Reprints Brunsdon and Morley's Everyday television (London : British Film Institute, 1978) and Morley's The Nationwide audience (London : British Film Institute, 1980), plus reviews of and responses to these works, including comments by Michael Barratt, the main presenter of Nationwide.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-291) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1891 Department of Arts Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0415148790
- OCLC:
- 40940006
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