Consuming Environments: Television and Commercial Culture

by Michael Budd, Steve Craig, Clayton M. Steinman

Book Overview

Whether we love it, hate it, or use it just to pass the time, most adults in the United States are watching more television than ever, up to four hours a day by some estimates. Or devotion to commercial television gives it unprecedented power in our lives.

Advertisers and television executives want us to spend as much time as we can in front of our sets, for it is access to our brains that they buy and sell. Yet the most important effect of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813525926
• ISBN13: 9780813525921
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.0" x 9.9"

Customer Reviews

Thought-provoking and thorough

This book is rich with ideas and provides a thought-provoking analysis of television and its impact on culture. It would no doubt be interesting to anthropologists of modern culture, sociologists, and the general public. We often forget about the powerful influence of this pervasive medium, but its impact is undeniable. By making this implicit impact explicit, Consuming Environments helps us become more reflective consumers of television content.