Viewers Like You?
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: October 15, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780231119436
Subjects: Media studies; Television; Performing Arts; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; Movie/Tv Tie-Ins; USA; Television & Video; Television - Screenwriting; Performing Arts / Television / General; Elite (Social sciences); History; Ideology; Public television; United States
First sentence: In 1992, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting published a retrospective of milestones, accolades, and vintage photographs to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of public broadcasting in the United States.
Description: From a cultural studies perspective, Ouellette looks at public television in terms of five principal ideals: excellence, cultivation, citizenship, pluralism, and advocacy, united by her focus on tensions among progressive promises, classifying tendencies, and governmental aims. The study is revised from her doctoral dissertation for the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.