Kottak, Conrad Phillip <br/><br/>
Prime-time society :  an anthropological analysis of television and culture / 
Conrad Phillip Kottak. 
 - Belmont, Calif. :  Wadsworth,  c1990. 
 - xxiii, 247 p. ;  24 cm. 
 - The Wadsworth modern anthropology library .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-240). 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0534124984 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Television broadcasting--Social aspects--Brazil.<br/>Television--Social aspects--United States.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>302.2345  / KOT