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book		Boxed in : the culture of TV / by Mark Crispin Miller Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1989. Call No: 62(04)(73) MIL Author: Miller, Mark Crispin Edition: 3rd ed. Source: US Place: Evanston, IL Publisher: Northwestern University Press PubDate: 1989 PhysDes: 349 p. : ill. ; 23 cm Subject: FILM; MEDIA; TELEVISION; NATIONAL CULTURE AND TV; USA; COSBY SHOW, THE [TV] (US, 1984-92); SUSPICION (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1941) Summary: "These twenty essays written over the past decade comprise an unusual study of the American media spectacle. Here are readings of cinema, advertising, rock music, and -above all - television, a force now so pervasive that it almost seems invisible. The book is divided into four sections. The first and longest - "What's On TV" - is a collection of twelve essays on some of TV's best-known images. The essays in the next section, "Rock Music: A Success Story," define the trajectory of rock and roll from its exhilarating take-off in the Fifties to its eventual descent into just another form of show business. In "The Promise of Cinema" Miller deals variously with the issue of sexism in the movies, then moves on to an analysis of Alfred Hitchcock's particular response to the problem of mass spectatorship. The book ends with "Overviews," two long essays on the elimination of critical consciousness from our culture. Each pieces not only offers an intensive analysis of some well-known visual moments - a soap commercial, Bill Cosby's face, Darth Vader glimpsed suddenly without his helmet - but also moves far beyond that rich particular to show how it illuminates the larger forces that produced it. Throughout Boxed In Miller sets a critical example - to show we can, and must, think out loud against the universal pressure of TV" -- BOOK BLURB Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. 333-335; Includes index ISBN: 080107929 Contents: -- list of illustrations -- acknowledgments -- introduction: the hipness unto death -- what's on TV -- massa, coming home -- getting dirty -- "family feud" -- off the prigs -- Cosby knows best -- virtu, inc -- a viewer's campaign diary, 1984 -- sickness on TV -- patriotism without tears -- "the air of expectancy was bursting at the seams" -- black and white -- how TV covers war -- rock music: a success story -- where all the flowers went -- the king -- the promise of cinema -- the lives of the stars -- Tom Mix was a softie -- in memoriam - A.J.H -- Hitchcock's suspicions and Suspicion -- overviews -- the robot in the western mind -- big brother is you, watching -- index -- More info
title clippings file		COSBY SHOW, THE : [TV] (US, 1984-92) Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: COSBY SHOW, THE [TV] (US, 1984-92) More info
book		Media matters : everyday culture and political change / John Fiske Minneapolis, Minn.: University of Minneota Press, 1994. Call No: 409.1(73) FIS Author: Fiske, John Place: Minneapolis, Minn. Publisher: University of Minneota Press PubDate: 1994 PhysDes: xxviii, 282 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Subject: MEDIA; RACIAL ISSUES AND TV; POLITICS AND TV; FAMILY ON TV; ETHNIC GROUPS ON TV; WOMEN ON TV; TRIALS ON TV; KING, RODNEY; SIMPSON, O.J.; MURPHY BROWN [TV] (US, 1988-); COSBY SHOW, THE [TV] (US, 1984-92) Summary: Detailing the eroding line between "real" and "media" events, Fiske explores the media's treatment of the O. J. Simpson arrest and pretrial hearings, the L.A. uprisings, the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas hearings, and the "family values" debate between Dan Quayle and Murphy Brown. He illustrates how African Americans, Korean Americans, Latinos, and women have succeeded in making their hitherto unheard voices heard and have influenced the nation's reaction to media events such as these. Fiske also analyzes speeches by George Bush, Dan Quayle, and Pat Buchanan, along with media commentary by Rush Limbaugh and CNN's Greg LaMotte, to reveal what Americans successfully rejected in ushering out the Reagan era. Through his analysis of the contradictory and diverse voices that make up U.S. culture, Fiske traces the nation's swing away from Reaganism and offers urgent warnings for the future Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-273) and index ISBN: 0816624623 (acid-free paper) LON: 10867683 More info
book		Re-viewing reception : television, gender, and postmodern culture / Lynne Joyrich Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1996. Call No: 64POS JOY Author: Joyrich, Lynne, 1959 Place: Bloomington, Ind. Publisher: Indiana University Press PubDate: 1996 PhysDes: 244 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Series: Theories of contemporary culture ; v. 18 Subject: POSTMODERNISM AND TV/VIDEO; GENDER AND TV; MELODRAMA; FAMILY ON TV; FEMINISM AND TV; AUDIENCE RESEARCH; SPECTATORSHIP; CONSUMERISM ON TV; ROBOTS ON TV; CYBERNETICS AND TV; MIAMI VICE [TV] (US, 1984-90); MOONLIGHTING [TV] (US, 1985-89); COSBY SHOW, THE [TV] (US, 1984-92); PEE-WEE'S PLAYHOUSE [TV] (US, 1986-91); MAX HEADROOM [TV] (US, 1987-89) Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-218) and index ISBN: 025321078X (pbk. : alk. paper); 0253330769 (alk. paper) LON: 96006931; 12195271 More info
book		Television and new media audiences / Ellen Seiter Oxford New York: Clarendon Press, 1998. Call No: 410 SEI Author: Seiter, Ellen, 1957 Place: Oxford New York Publisher: Clarendon Press PubDate: 1998 PhysDes: 154 p. : ill. ; 25 cm Series: Oxford television studies Subject: AUDIENCES; INTERNET AND TV; RELIGION AND TV; FEMINISM AND TV; ADVERTISING; AUDIENCE RESEARCH; CHILDREN AND TV; COSBY SHOW, THE [TV] (US, 1984-92); FLINTSTONES, THE [TV] (US, 1960-65) Summary: Why is talk about television forbidden at a Montessori school? Why does a mother feel guilty about watching Star Trek in front of her 4-year-old child? Why would retired men turn to daytime soap operas for entertainment? Cliches about television mask the complexity of our relationship to media technologies. Through case studies, the author explains what audience research tells us about the uses of technologies in the domestic sphere and the classroom, the relationship between gender and genre, and the varied interpretation of media technologies and media forms Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [141]-148) and index ISBN: 0198711425 (hardcover : alk. paper); 0198711417 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0198711425(cased) : No price; 0198711417(pbk.) : No price LON: 14044097 More info
book		Television sitcom London: British Film Institute, 2005. Call No: 732.2 MIL Author: Brett Mills Place: London Publisher: British Film Institute PubDate: 2005 Subject: SITUATION COMEDY; GENRES; KATH AND KIM [TV] (AT, 2002-); COSBY SHOW, THE [TV] (US, 1984-92); OFFICE, THE [TV] (UK, 2001); WILL AND GRACE Summary: Despite its global reach, longstanding popularity, and immense profitability, sitcom has been repeatedly neglected in theoretical work on television and media. This book demonstrates that this lack sorely needs to be addressed by dragging analysis of sitcom up to date, with a wealth of contemporary examples, a range of new approaches to the genre, and examination of the roles sitcom and comedy play within society…With specific case studies on Will and Grace, The Office and The Cosby Show, as well as analysis of a broad range of contemporary and historical examples throughout, this book will be of interest to students of sitcom and comedy, as well as those of television and popular culture. [Taken from back cover.] ISBN: 1844570886 More info

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