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The export of meaning : cross-cultural readings of Dallas / Tamar Liebes, Elihu Katz.

Title
The export of meaning : cross-cultural readings of Dallas / Tamar Liebes, Elihu Katz.
Author
Liebes, Tamar.
Publication
Cambridge : Polity Press, c1993.

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Additional Authors
Katz, Elihu, 1926-
Description
xii, 188 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Subject
  • Culture diffusion
  • Dallas (Television program)
Note
  • Previous ed.: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-180) and indexes.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
On viewing Dallas overseas: introduction to the study -- Reading television: television as text and viewers as decoders -- The research design -- One Moroccan group: a transcript and commentary -- Cultural differences in the retelling of an episode -- Mutual aid in the decoding of Dallas -- Referential reading -- Critical reading -- Neither here nor there: why Dallas failed in Japan (with Sumiko Iwao) -- Dallas and genesis: primordiality and seriality in popular culture -- Dallas as an educational game.
ISBN
0745612954 (pbk) :
LCCN
gb^93066871^
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library