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Author Wilson, Tony.

Title Watching television : hermeneutics, reception and popular culture / Tony Wilson
Published Cambridge, UK ; Cambridge, MA : Polity Press, 1993

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 W'PONDS  302.2345 Wil/Wth  AVAILABLE
Description ix, 230 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Notes on Television Programmes -- 1. Television: Familiarity and Phenomenology. 1.1. Audience and Life-world. 1.2. Beginning the Analysis: the Breakfast-time Viewer. 1.3. Television's Familiarity and 'Personal Sense' -- 2. Television: Hermeneutics and Horizons. 2.1. Understanding as a 'Fusion of Horizons'. 2.2. Identification and Social Roles. 2.3. Identification and New Perspectives. 2.4. Post-structuralist Hermeneutics -- 3. Audiences: Constructions of Sense. 3.1. Watching Television. 3.2. Viewers and Varieties of Meaning. 3.3. Serials, Sense and Identification -- 4. Viewing and the Veridical Effect. 4.1. The Audience's Horizon of Expectations. 4.2. Identification and the Veridical Effect. 4.3. Producing the Veridical Effect
Analysis Society Effects of Television
Bibliography Includes bibliography: pages [210]-222, and index
Subject Television broadcasting -- Social aspects.
Television programs -- Evaluation.
Television viewers.
LC no. 92040039
ISBN 0745607225
0745616364 (paperback)