A Tribal Memory of Public Broadcasting
Author | : John P. Witherspoon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Public broadcasting |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : John P. Witherspoon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Public broadcasting |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Barry Dornfeld |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2021-02-09 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 069122532X |
From 1989 to 1991, Barry Dornfeld had an unusual double role on the crew of the major PBS documentary series Childhood. As a researcher for the series, he investigated the relationship between children and media. As an anthropologist, however, his subject was the television production process itself--examining, for example, how producers developed the series, negotiated with their academic advisors, and shaped footage shot around the world into seven programs. He presents the results of his fieldwork in this groundbreaking study--one of the first to take an ethnographic approach to the production of a television show, as opposed to its reception. Dornfeld begins with a broad discussion of public television's role in American culture and goes on to examine documentaries as a form of popular anthropology. Drawing on his observations of Childhood, he considers the documentary form as a kind of "imagining," in which both producers and viewers construct understandings of themselves and others, revealing their conceptions of culture and history and their ideologies of cultural difference and universality. He argues that producers of culture should also be understood as consumers who conduct their work through an active envisioning of the audience. Dornfeld explores as well how intellectual media professionals struggle with the institutional and cultural forces surrounding television that promote entertainment at the expense of education. The book provides a rare glimpse behind the scenes of a major documentary and demonstrates the value of an ethnographic approach to the study of media production.
Author | : Laurie Oullette |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2012-07-24 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0231529317 |
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.
Author | : Laurence Ariel Jarvik |
Publisher | : Prima Lifestyles |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Current Events |
ISBN | : |
PBS originataed with good intentions: Making the world better through education. But according to media analyst Laurence Jarvik, America's only taxpayer-supported public broadcasting network has gone astray. " ... must reading for anyone who is interested in how the public broadcasting system was created, what it achieved, and where it has gone wrong." -- David Horowitz In his new book, "PBS: Behind the Screen, Jarvik provides the first independent, historical account of our nation's television network. Based on years of research and scores of interviews, he tours readers through PBS's evolution, from the early days, when the network was a shining vision in the minds of educators and philanthropists, to later years, when it became the focal point of a never-ending, sometimes ugly tug-of-war between opposing political camps. "PBS: Behind the Screen answers the following questions: - Does Sesame Street really educate? - What political agenda underlies PBS's hard-hitting documentary programs? - Is the real Bill Moyers the carefully crafted image viewers see on the screen? - What challenges did William F. Buckley Jr. have to overcome before Firing Line could be broadcast? - Just how much did America's favorite chef, Julia Child, really know about cooking when she started out?
Author | : Michael P. McCauley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 454 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : European Broadcasting Union |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Radio |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Bruce Rogers |
Publisher | : Dundurn |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1999-05-01 |
Genre | : Self-Help |
ISBN | : 1770700188 |
You Can Say That Again is Bruce Rogers’ light-hearted look at the the English language. It examines the origins, history, and peculiarities of the language, and provides instruction on how to speak effectively. It sets the record straight on how to pronounce some of the most troublesome words and names. It examines the standards of the electronic media and finds them wanting. And it offers tips on preparation and presentation for platform speakers and broadcasters. You Can Say That Again has a language quiz in every chapter, along with lists of origins, political and business terms, sports and science bloopers, puns, limericks, and euphemisms. There’s a pronunciation guide for major languages. And there is help for those who want to join the battle against jargon, slang, and cliches. Vocal confidence is essential for personal success. You Can Say That Again can help you sound better when you open your mouth to speak.
Author | : Andrew Hoskins |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2017-09-27 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1317267419 |
Digital media, networks and archives reimagine and revitalize individual, social and cultural memory but they also ensnare it, bringing it under new forms of control. Understanding these paradoxical conditions of remembering and forgetting through today’s technologies needs bold interdisciplinary interventions. Digital Memory Studies seizes this challenge and pioneers an agenda that interrogates concepts, theories and histories of media and memory studies, to map a holistic vision for the study of the digital remaking of memory. Through the lenses of connectivity, archaeology, economy, and archive, contributors illuminate the uses and abuses of the digital past via an array of media and topics, including television, videogames and social media, and memory institutions, network politics and the digital afterlife.
Author | : P. Lee |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2012-08-13 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1137265175 |
Exposing how memory is constructed and mediated in different societies, this collection explores particular contexts to identify links between the politics of memory, media representations and the politics of justice, questioning what we think we know and understand about recent history.
Author | : Alan G. Stavitsky |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 122 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Public radio |
ISBN | : |