TV Living: Television, Culture and Everyday LifeTV Living presents the findings of the BFI Audience Tracking Study in which 500 participants completed detailed questionnaire-diaries on their lives, their television watching, and the relationship between the two over a five year period. Gauntlett and Hill use this extensive data to explore some of the most fundamental questions in media and cultural studies, focusing on issues of gender, identity, the impact of new technologies, and life changes. Opening up new areas of debate, the study sheds new light on audiences and their responses to issues such as sex and violence on television. A unique study of contemporary tv audience behaviour and attitudes, TV Living offers a fascinating insight into the complex relationship between mass media and people's lives today. |
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... men and women actually watch? Should we talk about 'women's' and 'men's' interests? Is television output biased towards women or men? Should we still classify soap operas as 'women's programmes'? The representation of women Catering for ...
... men and women actually watch? Should we talk about 'women's' and 'men's' interests? Is television output biased towards women or men? Should we still classify soap operas as 'women's programmes'? The representation of women Catering for ...
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... men would almost always dominate the TV. It will also be seen that in the present study, we found that this was not usually the case, and we found little evidence of the polarised gender preferences (men liking realism, women loving ...
... men would almost always dominate the TV. It will also be seen that in the present study, we found that this was not usually the case, and we found little evidence of the polarised gender preferences (men liking realism, women loving ...
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... men considering the watching of an action movie on video a welcome leisure event, whilst women are less interested in the VCR generally, and since the home is not a site of leisure for them, would rather go out. At the same time, again ...
... men considering the watching of an action movie on video a welcome leisure event, whilst women are less interested in the VCR generally, and since the home is not a site of leisure for them, would rather go out. At the same time, again ...
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... men feel about gendered representations on TV, as well as the ways in which they watch it. In chapter nine, we examine what the diarists had to say about television violence, which continued to be a reasonably 'hot' topic in public ...
... men feel about gendered representations on TV, as well as the ways in which they watch it. In chapter nine, we examine what the diarists had to say about television violence, which continued to be a reasonably 'hot' topic in public ...
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