Logics of television ;  essays in cultural criticism / 
edited by Patricia Mellencamp. 
 - Bloomington :  London :  Indiana University Press ;  BFI Books,  c1990. 
 - viii, 307 p. ;  25 cm. 
 - Theories of contemporary culture ;  v. 11 .
<br/><br/> Papers presented at an international conference held April 12-14m 1988 at the Center for Twentieth Century Studies. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 
<br/><br/>Banality in cultural studies / Meaghan Morris -- Playing at being American : games and tactics / John Caughie -- Television : aesthetics and audiences / Charlotte Brunsdon -- Television in the family circle : the popular reception of a new medium / Lynn Spigel -- The Seven Dwarfs and the money grubbers : the public relations crisis of US television in the late 1950s / William Boddy -- Why we don't count : the commodity audience / Eileen R. Meehan -- Techno-ethics and tele-ethics : three lives in the day of Max Headroom / Andrew Ross -- Critical and textual hypermasculinity / Lynne Joyrich -- Superman and the protective strength of the trademark / Jane Gaines -- An ontology of everyday distraction : the freeway, the mall, and television / Margaret Morse -- Information, crisis, catastrophe / Mary Ann Doane -- TV time and catastrophe, or Beyond the pleasure principle of television / Patricia Mellencamp -- Representing television / Stephen Heath. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0253336171 (alk. paper) 9780253336170 (alk. paper) 0253205824 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780253205827 (pbk. : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>89046004  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Television broadcasting--Social aspects.<br/>Television broadcasting--United States.<br/>Television--Aspect social.<br/>Television--Etats-Unis.<br/>Culturele studies.<br/>Postmodernisme.<br/>Televisie.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN 1992.6  / L832 1990 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>302.23/45/0973