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Television, Childhood, and the Home: A History of the Making of the Child Television Audience in Britain »

Authors: David Oswell
ISBN-13: 9780198742609, ISBN-10: 0198742606
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: July 2002
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: David Oswell

David Oswell is Lecturer in Sociology, Goldsmiths College, University of London

Book Synopsis

The study was part of Oswell's (sociology, U. of London) 1995 doctoral dissertation, and parts of it have been published as separate articles. He examines the introduction of television programming for children under five in 1950 and its subsequent development, focusing on how the child television audience was constituted as a distinct, separate, and substantive entity. Distributed in the US by Oxford University Press. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

1	Introduction	1
2	The Early Years: Ethics and the Public Good	21
3	Children's Television: Participation, Commensurability, and Differentiation	45
4	Geographies of Viewing and the Reconstruction of the Modern Home	81
5	Expert Discourses and the Governance of Audiences	108
6	Children's Television Grows Up: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly	133
7	Postscript: Production, Markets, and Expertise	149
	Bibliography	164
	Index	177

Subjects

Entertainment

Television

Television Broadcasting - Social Aspects
Nonfiction