Television and consumer culture : Britain and the transformation of modernity / Rob Turnock.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Turnock, Robert.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Television broadcasting--Social aspects--Great Britain.

Television broadcasting.

Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects--Great Britain.

Consumption (Economics).

Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects.

Television broadcasting--Social aspects.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

xii, 244 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : I.B. Tauris ; New York : Distributed in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Summary:

The radical expansion and dramatic changes in television broadcasting during the third quarter of the twentieth century reflected and promoted the development of a new form of consumer culture in Britain. Society was becoming marked by fragmentation, individualism and consumerism and at the same time, ITV, a new commercial service, was challenging the middle-class, public service BBC. This book's examination of television's novel intervention in and re-articulation of British culture over this period pinpoints a crucial moment in the development of consumer capitalism when television's novel metaphysical forms provided a model of consumption par excellence.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-234) and index.

ISBN:

1845110781

9781845110789

184511079X

9781845110796

OCLC:

60838354