Watching television : hermeneutics, reception, and popular culture / Tony Wilson.
By: Wilson, Tony, Prof
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BookPublisher: Cambridge : Polity Press, 1993Description: ix, 230 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0745607225 (acidfree paper).Subject(s): Television viewers | Television programs -- EvaluationDDC classification: 302.2345 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 302.2345 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00015724 |
Bibliography: (pages 210-222) and index.
Television: Familiarity and phenomenology -- Television: Hermeneutics and horizons -- Audiences: Constructions of sense -- Viewing and the veridical effect -- Mechanisms of identification in film and television -- Subverting the veridical image -- Towards an 'epic' television.
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Tony Wilson is an Australian writer, speaker, radio and television personality, born in 1972. He writes adult and children's book. His work for children includes Harry Highpants, The Princess and the Packet of Frozen Peas, The Emperor's New Clothes Horse, and his latest book The Cow Tripped Over the Moon. He has written two novels for adults, Players and Making News. His sports memoir is entitled, Australia United. He has also written numerous articles for magazines and newspapers. He's an ex-Triple R Breakfaster, and a regular on ABC Local Radio and Radio National.(Bowker Author Biography)