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Consuming Environments: Television and Commercial Culture
Budd, Mike; Etc.; Craig, Steve (Professor And Chair, Department Of Radio, Television And Film, University Of North Texas, Usa); Steinman, Clay (Assoc
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paperback. A study of the consequences of television's power over our habits of material consumption and television's ultimate impact on the environment. Using examples drawn from commercials, news broadcasts and TV shows, the authors argue that television's appeal requires its methods to remain hidden. Series: Communications, Media & Culture S. Num Pages: 280 pages, 88 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD; JFFT; KNTD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 178 x 17. Weight in Grams: 526.
Whether we love it, hate it, or use it just to pass the time, most adults in the United States are watching more television than ever, up to four hours a day by some estimates. Or devotion to commercial television gives it unprecedented power in our lives.
Advertisers and television executives want us to spend as much time as we can in front of our sets, for it is access to our brains that they buy and sell. Yet the most important effect of television may be one that no one intends--accelerated destruction of the natural environment.
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Whether we love it, hate it, or use it just to pass the time, most adults in the United States are watching more television than ever, up to four hours a day by some estimates. Or devotion to commercial television gives it unprecedented power in our lives.
Advertisers and television executives want us to spend as much time as we can in front of our sets, for it is access to our brains that they buy and sell. Yet the most important effect of television may be one that no one intends--accelerated destruction of the natural environment.
... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Series
Communications, Media & Culture S.
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813525921
SKU
V9780813525921
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About Budd, Mike; Etc.; Craig, Steve (Professor And Chair, Department Of Radio, Television And Film, University Of North Texas, Usa); Steinman, Clay (Assoc
MIKE BUDD is a professor of communication and the director of the film and video program at Florida Atlantic University. He is editor of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Steve Craig is a professor and the chair of the department of radio, television, and film at the University of North Texas. He is editor of Men, Masculinity, and the Media. ... Read more
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