Television For A Better America
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Television For A Better America
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Author : Ami Marie Sommariva
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Television For A Better America written by Ami Marie Sommariva and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with categories.
Television for a Better America tracks the desires of 1970s media professionals, policy makers, educators, and television critics to deploy the most widely used media technology of their time to “make a difference” in racial inequality. Through in-depth examinations of Sesame Street, the 1977 Roots miniseries, and the public culture that surrounded these shows, I demonstrate that the feelings of viewers were the central object of intervention in this racial project. Both shows attempted to instill self-esteem and pride among Black viewers while stimulating feelings of sympathy or identification among White viewers with the people of color represented on their programs. Commentators and viewers responded enthusiastically to this approach, expressing tremendous optimism that the emotional changes wrought through viewing these programs would indeed ameliorate racial inequality between Blacks and Whites. Although this approach to ameliorating racism did not achieve its overall goal, the notion that race is no longer a major factor in determining life chances has become the dominant racial ideology in the United States today. Drawing upon Eduardo Bonilla-Silva’s theorization of this ideology, which he terms colorblind racism, I show how the efforts to end inequality by changing people’s feelings through television entertainment contributed to the emergence of this transformed racism. This dissertation traces a discourse on feelings through production documents, newspaper and magazine articles, government reports, memoirs, archived interviews, and the shows themselves. My investigation demonstrates that much public discourse from the late 1960s through the 1970s circulated around emotions said to contribute to or combat racial inequality. This idea shaped the work of the television professionals behind Sesame Street and Roots, who further promoted the idea that cultivating the right feelings meant ending racism and racial inequality. Asking individuals to conduct emotional restructurings as a way to undo the effects of the nation’s racial history—through viewing particular media products, for example—directs attention away from needed institutional change while also reinforcing the liberal value of individualism. It made colorblind racism possible by providing a framework for equating the end of racism with the emergence of Black pride and the minimization of conscious racial hatred by Whites. Moreover, this reasoning provided an avenue for expressing and pursuing desires to end racism that would not challenge the educational, economic, and legal institutions that reproduce racial inequality.
Make Room For Tv
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Author : Lynn Spigel
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2013-11-26
Make Room For Tv written by Lynn Spigel and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-26 with Social Science categories.
Between 1948 and 1955, nearly two-thirds of all American families bought a television set—and a revolution in social life and popular culture was launched. In this fascinating book, Lynn Spigel chronicles the enormous impact of television in the formative years of the new medium: how, over the course of a single decade, television became an intimate part of everyday life. What did Americans expect from it? What effects did the new daily ritual of watching television have on children? Was television welcomed as an unprecedented "window on the world," or as a "one-eyed monster" that would disrupt households and corrupt children? Drawing on an ambitious array of unconventional sources, from sitcom scripts to articles and advertisements in women's magazines, Spigel offers the fullest available account of the popular response to television in the postwar years. She chronicles the role of television as a focus for evolving debates on issues ranging from the ideal of the perfect family and changes in women's role within the household to new uses of domestic space. The arrival of television did more than turn the living room into a private theater: it offered a national stage on which to play out and resolve conflicts about the way Americans should live. Spigel chronicles this lively and contentious debate as it took place in the popular media. Of particular interest is her treatment of the way in which the phenomenon of television itself was constantly deliberated—from how programs should be watched to where the set was placed to whether Mom, Dad, or kids should control the dial. Make Room for TV combines a powerful analysis of the growth of electronic culture with a nuanced social history of family life in postwar America, offering a provocative glimpse of the way television became the mirror of so many of America's hopes and fears and dreams.
Television In America
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Author : George Comstock
language : en
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Release Date : 1980-05
Television In America written by George Comstock and has been published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980-05 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
A concise, readable, and informative analysis of the influence of television on the habits and manners of the American television public. Bringing together three schools of thought -- empirical research, theory, and speculative extrapolation -- this work interprets the result of thirty years of research by psychologists, sociologists, political behaviouralists, and mass communication researchers. 'It is an intelligently written and timely text...Broad in scope, yet specific in much of its content, aimed at informing rather than reforming. Television in America can provide a much needed perspective to all educated Americans in assessing the impact of television.' -- Contemporary Education, Vol 55 No 4, 1984
Television And American Culture
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Author : Jason Mittell
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2010
Television And American Culture written by Jason Mittell and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Performing Arts categories.
Exploring television at once as a technological medium, an economic system, a facet of democracy, and a part of everyday life, this landmark text uses numerous sidebars and case studies to demonstrate the past, immediate, and far-reaching effects of American culture on television--and television's influence on American culture. Arranged topically, the book provides a broad historical overview of television while also honing in on such finer points as the formal attributes of its various genres and its role in gender and racial identity formation.
Getting Better
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Author : BRYAN. GREEN
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
Getting Better written by BRYAN. GREEN and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Electronic books categories.
"Ever since the fifties, when television became ascendent in American popular culture, it has become commonplace to bemoan its "bad" effects. Little or nothing, however, has been said about its "good" effects. With this observation, Henry Perkinson introduces his provocative and original analysis of television and culture. Rejecting the determinism inherent in most studies of the effects of television ("We are what we watch"), he insists that it is people that actively change culture, media having no agency to do so. Nevertheless, he argues that television did facilitate the changes we have made in our culture over the past thirty years.Perkinson describes how television helped us become critical of our existing culture, especially of the relationships that were commonly accepted between men and women, blacks and whites, politicians and voters, employers and employees, and between people and the environment. These criticisms have brought about dramatic changes in our social, political, and economic arrangements, as well as changes in our intellectual outlook. Since these changes came about through our efforts to eliminate or reduce discrimination, suffering, and injustice, Perkinson argues that our culture has become more moral in the age of television.In what amounts to a history of recent social change in America, Getting Better examines the role television has played in the rise of feminism, the black protest movement, the presidential elections, the Vietnam War, Watergate, environmentalism, religious fundamentalism, and the New Age movement. This book will be essential reading for students of communications and American culture, and for anyone who wants to make sense of the transformations of American life from the 1950s to the present. Even those who do not agree that things are "getting better" will find that Perkinson's analysis helps to make things more coherent."--Provided by publisher.
Television In Black And White America
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Author : Alan Nadel
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Television In Black And White America written by Alan Nadel and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
La couverture indique : "Alan Nadel's new book reminds us that most of the images on early TV were decidedly Caucasian and directed at predominantly white audiences. Television did not invent whiteness for America, but it did reinforce it as the norm - particularly during the Cold War years. Nadel now shows just how instrumental it was in constructing a narrow, conservative, and very white vision of America." "During this era, prime-time TV was dominated by "adult Westerns," with heroes like The Rebel's Johnny Yuma reincarnating Southern values and Bonanza's Cartwright family reinforcing the notion of white patriarchy - programs that, Nadel shows, bristled with Cold War messages even as they spoke to the nation's mythology. America had become visually reconfigured as a vast Ponderosa, crisscrossed by concrete highways designed to carry suburban white drivers beyond the moral challenge of racism, racial poverty, and increasingly vocal civil rights demands."
America As Seen On Tv
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Author : Clara E. Rodríguez
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2018-03-20
America As Seen On Tv written by Clara E. Rodríguez and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-20 with HISTORY categories.
Finalist, 2020 Latino Book Awards, Best Academic Themed Book The surprising effects of American TV on global viewers As a dominant cultural export, American television is often the first exposure to American ideals and the English language for many people throughout the world. Yet, American television is flawed, and, it represents race, class, and gender in ways that many find unfair and unrealistic. What happens, then, when people who grew up on American television decide to come to the United States? What do they expect to find, and what do they actually find? In America, As Seen on TV, Clara E. Rodríguez surveys international college students and foreign nationals working or living in the US to examine the impact of American television on their views of the US and on their expectations of life in the United States. She finds that many were surprised to learn that America is racially and economically diverse, and that it is not the easy-breezy, happy endings culture portrayed in the media, but a work culture. The author also surveys US-millennials about their consumption of US TV and finds that both groups share the sense that American TV does not accurately reflect racial/ethnic relations in the US as they have experienced them. However, the groups differ on how much they think US TV has influenced their views on sex, smoking and drinking. America, As Seen on TV explores the surprising effects of TV on global viewers and the realities they and US millennials actually experience in the US.
Better Living Through Reality Tv
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Author : Laurie Ouellette
language : en
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Release Date : 2008-01-29
Better Living Through Reality Tv written by Laurie Ouellette and has been published by Wiley-Blackwell this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01-29 with Performing Arts categories.
Asserts that reality television is a cultural technology through which individuals and groups have come to monitor, motivate, improve, transform and protect themselves in the name of freedom, enterprise, and personal responsibility.
The Columbia History Of American Television
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Author : Gary Richard Edgerton
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2007
The Columbia History Of American Television written by Gary Richard Edgerton and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
Richly researched and engaging, The Columbia History of American Television tracks the growth of TV into a convergent technology, a global industry, a social catalyst, a viable art form, and a complex and dynamic reflection of the American mind and character. Renowned media historian Gary R. Edgerton follows the technological progress and increasing cultural relevance of television from its prehistory (before 1947) to the Network Era (1948-1975) and the Cable Era (1976-1994). He considers the remodeling of television's look and purpose during World War II; the gender, racial, and ethnic components of its early broadcasts and audiences; its transformation of postwar America; and its function in the political life of the country. In conclusion, Edgerton takes a discerning look at our current Digital Era and the new forms of instantaneous communication that continue to change America's social, political, and economic landscape.
The Hidden Screen
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Author : Robert L. Hilliard
language : en
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Release Date : 1999
The Hidden Screen written by Robert L. Hilliard and has been published by M.E. Sharpe this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Business & Economics categories.
A highly eclectic form of broadcasting in the United States today, by any standard, is low-power television (LPTV). Not an insignificant blip in the industry, there are more LPTV stations licensed than there are full-power television stations. LPTV offers true local and community programming to millions of viewers. Because it fills gaps left by both full-power television and cable, LPTV tends to serve outlying communities, disenfranchised urban groups, and others who have no other way to get their messages out, stay connected, or receive video programs that meet their special interests and needs. In this, the first book devoted entirely to LPTV, the authors tell the complete story of this unique and important medium from its inception to the formidable challenges it faces today and its potential for tomorrow.