Consuming Environments: Television and Commercial Culture (Communications, Media, and Culture Series)
"Budd, Craig, and Steinman reach across the conceptual and methodological gulf between 'cultural studies' and 'political economy' to address the impact of commercialized television on our cultural and physical environments, highlighting the interconnectedness of the ostensibly discrete categories of culture, nature, and economics... But they do not stop there-they foreground the social movements seeking to engage and ameliorate the influence of corporate commercialism. Read this book. Ask your friends to read this book. It's important."  --Jackie Byars, Wayne State University"Consuming Environments is an excellent introduction to the issue of commercial broadcasting, the peculiar culture it generates, and the political and environmental problems to which it contributes."  --Robert W. McChesney, University of Wisconsin-Madison"This important book skillfully draws reader's attention to what goes on 'behind' the TV set as well as in front of it."  --Ramona Curry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign