Society's Impact on Television: How the Viewing Public Shapes Television Programming

by Gary W. Selnow and Richard R. Gilbert

This book is about how TV makers--notably writers, producers, and network programmers--are deeply influenced by public pressures outside their craft. Many scholars assume that the relationship between society and television is one-way, that the traffic of influence moves from the content of a program to the behavior of those who view it, and that if a show is too exploitative or violent or stereotypical, it transforms the minds of those who watch...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275943909
• ISBN13: 9780275943905
• Release Date: March 1993
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"