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Book cover image of Consumer Culture And Tv Programming by Robin K Andersen

Authors: Robin K Andersen, Herbert I. Schiller
ISBN-13: 9780813315423, ISBN-10: 0813315425
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Westview Press
Date Published: May 1995
Edition: 1st Edition

Author Biography: Robin K Andersen

Robin Andersen is associate professor of communication at Fordham University.

Book Synopsis

To what extent does the advertising industry control what we see on TV? What is the political and cultural environment that provides for the phenomenon of the corporate shaping of the mass media?Robin

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
1	Advertising, Economics, and the Media	14
2	The Producers and Consumers of Nikes and Other Products...	51
3	Emotional Ties That Bind: Focus Groups, Psychoanalysis, and Consumer Culture	72
4	Postmodern Theory and Consumer Culture	92
5	Thirtysomething, Lifestyle Consumption, and Therapy	118
6	The Television Talk Show: From Democratic Potential to Pseudotherapy	146
	The Crisis of Information	146
	The Talk Show's Lost Potential	158
7	Cops on the Night Beat	174
	"Reality"-Based Police Shows, Urban Community, and Criminal (In)Justice	174
	Issues of Social Control: Voyeurism, Privacy, and the Culture of Surveillance	198
8	Advertising and the Persian Gulf War	211
9	Democratic Talk-Show Strategies and the Competing Narratives of the 1992 Presidential Election	225
	Conclusion: The Commercial Politics of Postmodern Television	252
	Notes	273
	Bibliography	283
	About the Book and Author	295
	Index	297

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