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Explores how intellectual media professionals struggle with the institutional and cultural forces surrounding television that promote entertainment at the expense of education. This book provides a glimpse behind the scenes of a major documentary and demonstrates the value of an ethnographic approach to the study of media production.

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AcknowledgmentsCh. 1Studying Public Television as American Public Culture3Ch. 2Childhood on the Contested Territory of Public Television in the United States35Ch. 3Negotiating Documentary Production: Authorship and Imagined Audiences61Ch. 4Public Television Documentary Poetics89Ch. 5Cutting across Cultures: Public Television Documentary and Representations of Otherness140Ch. 6Public Television Documentary and the Mediation of American Public Culture168App. AOrganizational chart of the Childhood Staff189App. BList of Academic Observers and Advisors191App. CSynopsis of the Childhood Series193Notes197References221Filmography234Index237

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    Publisher: Princeton University Press
    Publication Date: 21/07/1998
    ISBN13: 9780691044675, 978-0691044675
    ISBN10: 0691044678
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    Description

    Book Synopsis
    Explores how intellectual media professionals struggle with the institutional and cultural forces surrounding television that promote entertainment at the expense of education. This book provides a glimpse behind the scenes of a major documentary and demonstrates the value of an ethnographic approach to the study of media production.

    Table of Contents
    AcknowledgmentsCh. 1Studying Public Television as American Public Culture3Ch. 2Childhood on the Contested Territory of Public Television in the United States35Ch. 3Negotiating Documentary Production: Authorship and Imagined Audiences61Ch. 4Public Television Documentary Poetics89Ch. 5Cutting across Cultures: Public Television Documentary and Representations of Otherness140Ch. 6Public Television Documentary and the Mediation of American Public Culture168App. AOrganizational chart of the Childhood Staff189App. BList of Academic Observers and Advisors191App. CSynopsis of the Childhood Series193Notes197References221Filmography234Index237

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