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Watching what we watch : prime-time television through the lens of faith

Title: Watching what we watch : prime-time television through the lens of faith / Walter T. Davis, Jr. [and others].
Publication: Louisville, Ky. : Geneva Press, [2001], ©2001.

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Additional Authors

Davis, Walter T.

Description

xxii, 338 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

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Contents

Pt. I. Are Situation Comedies Really a Laughing Matter? 1. Seinfeld: Nothing but Attitude. 2. The Simpsons: Redefining the Family Sitcom. 3. Moesha: Hip-Hop Family Values. 4. Will & Grace: Changing Social Values. 5. Ally McBeal: Is Feminism a Bygone? Interlude: So Where's the Sex and Violence? -- Pt. II. An Overview of Prime-Time Dramas. 6. Law & Order: The Cop Show Prescription for Containing Evil. 7. ER and Medical Dramas: Moments of Grace in the Midst of Chaos. 8. Beverly Hills 90210: The World According to Teenage Soaps. 9. Touched by an Angel: Popular Religious Drama. 10. The X-Files: Postmodern Quests for Reality -- Pt. III. An Overview of Fact-Based Programming. 11. Televised News: If It Bleeds, It Leads. 12. The Super Bowl: Big Money, Big Guys, and "The Big Guy Upstairs" -- Pt. IV. The Commerce of Television. 13. Commercials, the Real Stars of the Airways. 14. The Business behind the Box: "I'm Mad as Hell" Revisited in the New Millennium.
App. A. Methods for "Reading" Television -- App. B. Worksheet for Analyzing and Interpreting Television "Texts" -- App. C. Lesson Plans.

ISBN

0664501931

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Columbia University Libraries