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31. Inside Prime Time

    2nd Edition

    By Todd Gitlin

    Series: Communication and Society

    Prime time: those precious few hours every night when the three major television networks garner millions of dollars while tens of millions of Americans tune in. Inside Prime Time is a classic study of the workings of the Hollywood television industry, newly available with an updated introduction....

    Published September 14th 1994 by Routledge
32. Talk on Television

    Audience Participation and Public Debate

    By Sonia Livingstone, Peter Lunt

    Series: Communication and Society

    Not only is everyday conversation increasingly dependent on television, but more and more people are appearing on television to discuss social and personal issues. Is any public good served by these programmes or are they simply trashy entertainment which fills the schedules cheaply? Talk on...

    Published December 8th 1993 by Routledge
33. We Keep America on Top of the World

    Television Journalism and the Public Sphere

    By Daniel Hallin

    Series: Communication and Society

    We Keep America on Top of the World is a lucid exploration of contemporary American journalism, with particular emphasis on its influential and controversial conponent - television news. Daniel Hallin's discussion encompasses the central and most controversial issues in the study of journalism: the...

    Published November 3rd 1993 by Routledge
34. Communication and Citizenship

    Journalism and the Public Sphere

    By Peter Dahlgren, Colin Sparks

    Series: Communication and Society

    Looks at how the media can inform the general public about the world at a time when public service broadcasting is under attack and the popular press plays to the market with an output of sensationalism....

    Published October 6th 1993 by Routledge
35. Television Producers

    By Jeremy Tunstall

    Series: Communication and Society

    Covering all the major areas of television production, this in-depth work highlights the widely varying influences, difficulties and opportunities at work in the industry. Each kind of producer across the seven areas here examined faces the same practical issues of budget, talent and equipment...

    Published September 8th 1993 by Routledge
36. Nation, Culture, Text

    Australian Cultural and Media Studies

    Edited by Graeme Turner

    Series: Communication and Society

    Nation, Culture, Text: Australian Cultural and Media Studies is the first collection of cultural studies from Australia, selected and introduced for an international readership.Participating in the `de-centring' of cultural studies - considering what perspectives other than the European and the...

    Published September 1st 1993 by Routledge
37. Getting the Message

    News, Truth, and Power

    Edited by John Eldridge

    Series: Communication and Society

    The work of the Glasgow Media Group has long established their place at the forefront of Media Studies, and Getting the Message provides an ideal introduction to recent work by the Group. Contributors discuss themes such as the relationship between the media and public opinion, the emergence of TV...

    Published June 16th 1993 by Routledge
38. Fields in Vision

    Television Sport and Cultural Transformation

    By Garry Whannel

    Series: Communication and Society

    Fields in Vision offers a comprehensive and analytical study of the international phenomenon of television sports coverage. Garry Whannel considers the historical development of sport on television, the growth of sponsorship and the way that television and sponsorship have re-shaped sport in the...

    Published October 14th 1992 by Routledge
39. Critical Communication Studies

    Essays on Communication, History and Theory in America

    By Hanno Hardt

    Series: Communication and Society

    The development of communication studies has been a lively process of adoption and integration of theoretical constructs from Pragmatism, Critical Theory and Cultural Studies. Critical Communication Studies describes the intellectual and professional forces that have shaped research interests and...

    Published March 25th 1992 by Routledge
40. Pluralism, Politics and the Marketplace

    The Regulation of German Broadcasting

    By Suzanne Hasselbach, Vincent Porter

    Series: Communication and Society

    Since the mid-1980s, broadcasting in the Federal Republic of Germany has been extensively re-regulated. The traditional duopoly of the public broadcasters Ard and ZDF has been challenged by new private networks in both radio and television. In two historic judgements handed down in 1986 and 1987,...

    Published December 18th 1991 by Routledge