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Book SynopsisLocating Television: Zones of Consumption takes an important next step for television studies: it acknowledges the growing diversity of the international experience of television today in order to address the question of what is television now?'
The book addresses this question in two interrelated ways:
- by situating the consumption of television within the full range of structures, patterns and practices of everyday life;
- and by retrieving the importance of location as fundamental to these structures, patterns and practices and, consequently, to the experience of television.
This approach, involving collaboration between authors from cultural studies and cultural anthropology, offers new ways of studying the consumption of television in particular, the use of the notion of zones of consumption' as a new means of locating television within the full range of its spatial, temporal, cultural, political and industrial
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"This wonderfully theorized book provides a timely call for the field of global media studies. Re-energizing the efforts to explore the mediums increasing global reach it nonetheless emphasizes the crucial need to carefully contextualize the study of television in its ever proliferating locations. Challenging us to find a way to address the particularities of specific locations, or as the writers aptly call it, 'zones of consumption', this meticulously conceptualized and impressively researched volume draws on cultural anthropology and global television studies approaches, promising to enhance the field's investigation into the medium as a global whole without abandoning the particularities through which it is experienced in the daily lives of audience and producers around the world." -Sharon Shahaf, Georgia State University, USA
Table of ContentsChapter One: Understanding Television Today Chapter Two: Television and the Nation: The Return of the Repressed Chapter Three: Sharedness, Liveness and the Construction of Communities Chapter Four: Television and the Desire for Modernity Chapter Five: Television, Domestic Space and the Moral Economy of the Family Chapter 6: Conclusion
