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Television, Audiences and Cultural Studies »

Authors: David Morley
ISBN-13: 9780415054454, ISBN-10: 0415054451
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: December 1992
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: David Morley

Book Synopsis

A multi-faceted exploration of audience research, in which Morley draws on a rich body of empirical work to examine the emergence, development and future of audience research.

	Acknowledgements
	Introduction	1
Pt. I	Theoretical frameworks	43
1	Television audience research: a critical history	45
2	Psychoanalytic theories: texts, readers and subjects	59
Pt. II	Class, ideology and interpretation	73
3	Interpreting television: the Nationwide audience	75
4	The 'Nationwide' Audience: a critical postscript	119
Pt. III	Gender, domestic leisure and viewing practices	131
5	Research development: from 'decoding' to viewing context	133
6	The gendered framework of family viewing	138
7	From Family Television to a sociology of media consumption	159
Pt. IV	Methodological issues	171
8	Towards an ethnography of the television audience	173
Pt. V	Television, technology and consumption	199
9	Domestic communication: technologies and meanings	201
10	The consumption of television as a commodity	213
11	Private worlds and gendered technologies	221
Pt. VI	Between the private and the public	249
12	The construction of everyday life: political communication and domestic media	251
13	Where the global meets the local: notes from the sitting-room	270
	Notes	290
	Bibliography	297
	Index	311

Subjects

Entertainment

Television

Television Broadcasting - Social Aspects
Nonfiction