Watching TV Is Not Required

Description

"McGrane and Gunderson have put together an extraordinarily provocative stream of sociologically inspired responses to television. Nothing could be more "relevant" to students, and in the right hands, this is a resource for a learning experience that at once maximizes critical and creative thinking. McGrane and Gunderson give new life to sociological thinking."—Jack Katz, Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles

This book was created over years of discussion, classroom experiments, exercises and interaction. This book is also the process and product of the interaction of two individuals working with ideas. Its creation is the antithesis of what we are critiquing. It is the result of a dialogue and human relationship. This book addresses a very different relationship, a "relationship" to television….a "televisionship," a one dimensional imprinting relationship without dialogue or living human interaction. It examines a relationship with Plato’s "cave" and the contemporary media matrix that continues its existence.

Contents

CH 1 – PARENT TV: OUR THIRD PARENT

CH 2 – IDENTITY TV: YOU ARE WHAT YOU WATCH

CH 3 – REALITY TV: TV IS A PLACE WHERE WE LIVE

CH 4 – CONSUMERISM TV: YOU ARE WHAT YOU WANT

CH 5 – RELATIONSHIP TV: I DON’T REALLY LOVE YOU, I LOVE GORDON’S GIN/JOHN CUSAK

CH 6 – CHILDREN’S TV: SATURDAY MORING GHETTO

CH 7 – MIRROR TV: LOOKING GLASS SELF

Ch 8 – UN-TV: NO TV AND MEDITATION TV

Author Bio

Barney McGrane has a huge following among lower-division sociology instructors in North America. Barney has taught literally thousands of students at UCLA, UC Irvine, Pitzer, Colby College, and now Chapman University during his career. He is a mesmerizing teacher.

John Gunderson has a Ph.D in education from Claremont Graduate School and was named "outstanding master’s student of the year" from Chapman University. He teaches as an adjunct at Chapman University

Related Subjects

1. Culture & Development
2. Mass Communication
3. Cultural American Studies
4. American Cultural Studies
5. Material Culture
6. Consumption
7. Youth Culture
8. Sociology of Media