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Viewers Like You : How Public TV Failed the People / Laurie Ouellette.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2002]Copyright date: ©2002Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231119429
  • 9780231505994
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 384.55/4/0973 21
LOC classification:
  • HE8700.79.U6 O94 2002eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Cultural Contradictions of Public Television -- I. Oasis of the Vast Wasteland -- II. The Quest to Cultivate -- III. TV Viewing as Good Citizenship -- IV. Something for Everyone -- V. Radicalizing Middle America -- Epilogue: Public Television, Popularity, and Cultural Justice -- Notes -- Index
Summary: How "public" is public television if only a small percentage of the American people tune in on a regular basis? When public television addresses "viewers like you," just who are you? Despite the current of frustration with commercial television that runs through American life, most TV viewers bypass the redemptive "oasis of the wasteland" represented by PBS and turn to the sitcoms, soap operas, music videos, game shows, weekly dramas, and popular news programs produced by the culture industries. Viewers Like You? traces the history of public broadcasting in the United States, questions its priorities, and argues that public TV's tendency to reject popular culture has undermined its capacity to serve the people it claims to represent. Drawing from archival research and cultural theory, the book shows that public television's perception of what the public needs is constrained by unquestioned cultural assumptions rooted in the politics of class, gender, and race.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Cultural Contradictions of Public Television -- I. Oasis of the Vast Wasteland -- II. The Quest to Cultivate -- III. TV Viewing as Good Citizenship -- IV. Something for Everyone -- V. Radicalizing Middle America -- Epilogue: Public Television, Popularity, and Cultural Justice -- Notes -- Index

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How "public" is public television if only a small percentage of the American people tune in on a regular basis? When public television addresses "viewers like you," just who are you? Despite the current of frustration with commercial television that runs through American life, most TV viewers bypass the redemptive "oasis of the wasteland" represented by PBS and turn to the sitcoms, soap operas, music videos, game shows, weekly dramas, and popular news programs produced by the culture industries. Viewers Like You? traces the history of public broadcasting in the United States, questions its priorities, and argues that public TV's tendency to reject popular culture has undermined its capacity to serve the people it claims to represent. Drawing from archival research and cultural theory, the book shows that public television's perception of what the public needs is constrained by unquestioned cultural assumptions rooted in the politics of class, gender, and race.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)