Television, Childhood, and the Home - A History of the Making of the Child Television Audience in Britain

Informationen zum Autor David Oswell is Lecturer in Lecturer in Sociology, Goldsmiths College, University of London Klappentext This book! the first academic study of its kind! uncovers a history of the child television audience. Looking in detail at children's television and its audience in Britain in the 1940s! 1950s! and 1960s! the book shows how an audience literally came into being! how it was given substance! and how it became the site of intervention. Zusammenfassung This book, the first academic study of its kind, uncovers a history of the child television audience. Looking in detail at children's television and its audience in Britain in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, the book shows how an audience literally came into being, how it was given substance, and how it became the site of intervention. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Introduction 2: The Early Years: Ethics and the Public Good 3: Children's Television: Participation, Commensurability, and Differentiation 4: Geographies of Viewing and the Reconstruction of the Modern Home 5: Expert Discourses and the Governance of Audiences 6: Children's Television Grows Up: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly 7: Postscript: Production, Markets, and Expertise Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: David Oswell, David (Lecturer in Sociology Oswell, Oswell David
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2002
• EAN: 9780198742609
• ISBN: 978-0-19-874260-9
• No. of pages: 190
• Series: Oxford Television Studies; Oxford Television Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; Media Studies, Television, PERFORMING ARTS / Television / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Children's Studies, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Age groups: children, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period)