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Pertierra, Anna Cristina; Turner, Graeme - Locating Television - 9780415509794 - V9780415509794
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Locating Television

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Description for Locating Television Paperback. Num Pages: 168 pages, 3 black & white tables, 9 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: APT; JFDT; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 158 x 10. Weight in Grams: 280.

Locating Television: Zones of Consumption takes an important next step for television studies: it acknowledges the growing diversity of the international experience of television today in order to address the question of ‘what is television now?’

The book addresses this question in two interrelated ways:

  • by situating the consumption of television within the full range of structures, patterns and practices of everyday life;
  • and by retrieving the importance of location as fundamental to these structures, patterns and practices – and, consequently, to the experience of television.

This approach, involving collaboration between authors from cultural studies and cultural anthropology, offers new ways of ... Read more

Although the study draws its examples from a wide range of locations (the US, the UK, Australia, Malaysia, Cuba, and the Chinese language markets in Asia - -Hong Kong, Singapore, China and Taiwan), its argument is strongly informed by the evidence and the insights which emerged from ethnographic research in Mexico. This research site serves a strategic purpose: by working on a location with a highly developed and commercially successful transnational television industry, but which is not among the locations usually considered by television studies written in English, the limitations to some of the assumptions underlying the orthodoxies in Anglo-American television studies are highlighted.

Suitable for both upper level students and researchers, this book is a valuable and original contribution to television, media and cultural studies, and anthropology, presenting approaches and evidence that are new to the field.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
Number of Pages
158
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780415509794
SKU
V9780415509794
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1

About Pertierra, Anna Cristina; Turner, Graeme
Anna Cristina Pertierra is an ARC Australian Postdoctoral Fellow in the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland. With interests in media anthropology, material culture and consumption studies, she is the author of Cuba: The Struggle for Consumption (2011) and co-editor of Consumer Culture in Latin America (2012), as well as a number of articles and ... Read more

Reviews for Locating Television
"This wonderfully theorized book provides a timely call for the field of global media studies. Re-energizing the efforts to explore the mediums increasing global reach it nonetheless emphasizes the crucial need to carefully contextualize the study of television in its ever proliferating locations. Challenging us to find a way to address the particularities of specific locations, or as the writers ... Read more

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