THE WORLD ACCORDING TO TELEVISION

 

 

MATERIALS ON ELECTRONIC RESERVE

The following materials are available online through Electronic Reserve or in Robeson Library at the Reserve Desk.

Charles Weingartner, “What Do We Know?”
W. James Potter, “The Importance of Real-World Information”
W. James Potter, “What Is An Audience”
W. James Potter, “What Is Entertainment?”
John Fiske and John Hartley, “The Signs of Television” and “The Codes of Television”
Douglas Kellner, “Hegemony, Counterhegemony, and Instrumentalist Theories” (withbibliography)
Marcel Danesi, “Television”
Neil Postman, “The Judgment of Thamus” and “From Tools to Technocracy”
S. I. Hayakawa and Alan Hayakawa, “The Empty Eye”
Alan M. Olson, et al. “Video Ergo Sum”
Aletha C. Hurston, et al. “Television Images and Their Effects”
Brian Donohue, “The Electronic Imagination: Requiem for a Narrative”
Charles McGrath, “The Triumph of the Prime-Time Novel”
Adrienne L. McLean, “Marshall McLuhan, Television Culture, and ‘The X-Files’”
Bernard Timberg, “The Unspoken Rules of Television Talk”
Douglas Kellner, “TV News, Ideology, and Media Mediation” (with bibliography)
Herman Gray, “The Politics of Representation in Network Television”
Kathleen Hall Jamieson, “Does Local Television News Shape Our Views of Those of Other Races?”
Robert Kubey and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, “Television Addiction Is No Mere Metaphor”
Marcel Danesi, “Glossary” and “Bibliogrphy”