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Ordinary television : analyzing popular TV / Frances Bonner.
LIBRA PN1992.6 .B65 2003
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bonner, Frances.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Television programs--Australia.
- Television programs.
- Television programs--Great Britain.
- Television programs--Social aspects.
- Great Britain.
- Television programs--Social aspects--Great Britain.
- Television programs--Social aspects--Australia.
- Australia.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 229 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage, 2003.
- Summary:
- Most books on television have focused on drama, or news and current affairs. In other words, they tend to ignore 'ordinary' television lifestyle programmes and 'reality TV', just the sort of programmes which increasingly dominate the schedules. I
- Contents:
- 1. Conventional Ways of Looking at Programmes 8
- 2. What is Ordinary Television? 29
- 3. The People Involved 64
- 4. Pervasive Discourses 98
- 5. Disguised, Quarantined and Absent Discourses 137
- 6. The Global and the National Ordinary 171.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [217]-224) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0830975708
- 0803975716
- OCLC:
- 52436168
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