History, Historians and the Mundane. We might think that while the present is mundane, the past was filled with drama and excitement. DeGroot shows us that these perceptions are distorted by historiography and media imagery, particularly documentaries. Actually, the past was as ordinary and boring as the present. J. Alison Bryant and Jennings Bryant, Living with an Invisible Family Medium.
Television is so much a part of American family life that it is an unnoticed virtual participant.
The Bryants dissect the everyday interaction of families and television and present research that reveals how television affects our daily living patterns. A Pilot Study. McCourt and Fitzpatrick explore the qualities of our personal lives that draw viewers to particular kinds of media depictions. Our understandings of the function of psychiatry are affected by our exposure to particular images in the media. Pies shows us how the challenges of his work as a psychiatrist are compounded by three commonly portrayed archetypes.