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Authors: Mullan
ISBN-13: 9780631202349, ISBN-10: 063120234X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
Date Published: March 1997
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Mullan

Book Synopsis

Consuming Television is a textbook designed to introduce students to the role of television in contemporary society and to encourage an understanding of what contemporary audiences are all about

Table of Contents

List of Tables
Acknowledgements
Introduction1
1Audiences4
2Technology20
3Programmes39
4'Quality Television'64
5News79
6Television, Politics and Impartiality100
7Offensive Television121
8Children, Regulation and the 'Effects' of Television142
9Television's Uncertain Future179
Postscript: 'Don't ask what does people harm. Ask what does them good.'200
Notes205
Bibliography221
Index

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