The Entertainment Functions of Television

ISBN-13: 9780898590135 / Angielski / Twarda / 1980 / 272 str.

P. H. Tannenbaum;P. H. Tannenbaum

Opis

First published in 1980. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 An Unstructured Introduction to an Amorphous Area, Percy H. Tannenbaum; Chapter 2 Entertainment as a Sociological Enterprise, Harold Mendelsohn, H. T. Spetnagel; Chapter 3 The Power and Limitations of Television: A Cognitive-Affective Analysis, Jerome L. Singer; Chapter 4 The Audience as Critic: A Conceptual Analysis of Television Entertainment, Hilde T. Himmelweit, Betty Swift, Marianne E. Jaeger; Chapter 5 Entertainment as Vicarious Emotional Experience, Percy H. Tannenbaum; Chapter 6 Anatomy of Suspense, Dolf Zillmann; Chapter 7 Humor and Catharsis: The Effect of Comedy on Audiences, Thomas J. Scheff, Stephen C. Scheeie; Chapter 8 Toward the Integration of Entertainment and Educational Functions of Television: The Role of Humor, Paul E. McGhee; Chapter 9 Television News as Entertainment, Leo Bogart;

O autorze

University of California, Berkeley.