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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.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | PN1992.6 .W37 2001 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Davis, Walter T.
- Description
- xxii, 338 pages : illustrations; 26 cm
- Summary
- Television has eclipsed the church and school as the most dominant storyteller in our culture. Watching What We Watch discusses the various aspects of "reading" television, helps us to understand how television creates meanings, and teaches us to assess the truth and value of those meanings. Watching What We Watch provides an accessible framework for analyzing television theologically and from the perspective of our values and beliefs. A team of experts uses examples from popular television shows to explore the forces that drive television production and to challenge viewers to consider what things they should appreciate about television and what things they should call into question. - Back cover.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- reviews (documents)
- Reviews.
- Comptes rendus.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [329]-331) and index.
- Contents
- pt. I. Are situation comedies really a laughing matter? -- Seinfeld: nothing but attitude -- The Simpsons: redefining the family sitcom --Moesha: hip-hop family values -- Will & Grace: changing social values -- Ally McBeal: is feminism a bygone? -- Interlude: so where's the sex and violence? -- Interlude: so where's the sex and violence?
- pt. 2. An overview of prime-time dramas -- Law & Order: the cop show prescription for containing evil -- ER and medical dramas: moments of grace in the midst of chaos -- Beverly Hills 90210: the world according to teenage soaps -- Touched by an Angel: popular religious drama -- The X-Files: postmodern quests for reality.
- pt. 3. An overview of fact-based programming -- Televised news: if it bleeds, it leads -- The Super Bowl: big money, big guys, and "the big guy upstairs."
- pt. 4. The commerce of television -- Commercials, the real stars of the airways -- The business behind the box: ": I'm mad as hell" revisited in the new millennium.
- ISBN
- 0664501931
- 9780664501938
- LCCN
- 2003268925
- OCLC
- ocm48214711
- 48214711
- SCSB-1232328
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library