Locating Television: Zones of Consumption

ISBN-13: 9780415509787 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 158 str.

Anna Cristina Pertierra; Graeme Turner

Opis

This title takes an important next step for television studies: it acknowledges the growing diversity of the international experience of television today in order to address the question of 'what is television now?'.

Recenzje

"This wonderfully theorized book provides a timely call for the field of global media studies. Re-energizing the efforts to explore the mediums increasing global reach it nonetheless emphasizes the crucial need to carefully contextualize the study of television in its ever proliferating locations. Challenging us to find a way to address the particularities of specific locations, or as the writers aptly call it, 'zones of consumption', this meticulously conceptualized and impressively researched volume draws on cultural anthropology and global television studies approaches, promising to enhance the field's investigation into the medium as a global whole without abandoning the particularities through which it is experienced in the daily lives of audience and producers around the world." - Sharon Shahaf, Georgia State University, USA

Spis treści

Chapter One: Understanding Television Today  Chapter Two: Television and the Nation: The Return of the Repressed  Chapter Three: Sharedness, Liveness and the Construction of Communities  Chapter Four: Television and the Desire for Modernity  Chapter Five: Television, Domestic Space and the Moral Economy of the Family  Chapter 6: Conclusion

O autorze

Anna Cristina Pertierra is an ARC Australian Postdoctoral Fellow in the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland. With interests in media anthropology, material culture and consumption studies, she is the author of Cuba: The Struggle for Consumption (2011) and co-editor of Consumer Culture in Latin America (2012), as well as a number of articles and book chapters. Graeme Turner is an ARC Federation Fellow and Director of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland. A leading international figure in cultural and media studies, his most recent books include Television Studies after TV: Understanding television in the post-broadcast era (2009) Ordinary People and the Media: The demotic turn (2010), and What’s Become of Cultural Studies? (2011).