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Prime-time society : an anthropological analysis of television and culture / Conrad Phillip Kottak.

By: Kottak, Conrad Phillip.
Series: The Wadsworth modern anthropology library. Publisher: Belmont, Calif. : Wadsworth, c1990Description: xxiii, 247 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0534124984.Subject(s): Television broadcasting -- Social aspects -- Brazil | Television -- Social aspects -- United StatesDDC classification: 302.2345
Contents:
List of tables - Foreword to the series - Foreword to the book - Preface - Acknowledgements -- Part One : Television and culture - 1. Television and cultural behavior - 2. Studying television -- Part Two : The national level - 3. Censors and gatekeepers - 4. Telenovelas, Mass culture and national identity - 5. Cultural contrasts in prime-time society - 6. Competition, achievement and information - 7. What's news: Crime, violence and the stranger -- Part Three : The local level - 8. The field sites - 9. Television's social impact - 10. Television's impact on attitudes, fears, values, images and consumerism - 11. Festivals, celebrations and gift-giving - 12. Television and modern life - Epilogue: Stage V- The couch potato strikes back - Notes - References - Index.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-240).

List of tables - Foreword to the series - Foreword to the book - Preface - Acknowledgements -- Part One : Television and culture - 1. Television and cultural behavior - 2. Studying television -- Part Two : The national level - 3. Censors and gatekeepers - 4. Telenovelas, Mass culture and national identity - 5. Cultural contrasts in prime-time society - 6. Competition, achievement and information - 7. What's news: Crime, violence and the stranger -- Part Three : The local level - 8. The field sites - 9. Television's social impact - 10. Television's impact on attitudes, fears, values, images and consumerism - 11. Festivals, celebrations and gift-giving - 12. Television and modern life - Epilogue: Stage V- The couch potato strikes back - Notes - References - Index.