Making sense of television : the psychology of audience interpretation
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Making sense of television : the psychology of audience interpretation
(International series in social psychology)
Butterworth-Heinemann, 1995
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-209) and indexes
"Second edition"--back cover
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This text looks at how viewers interpret the programmes that they see. A critical review of relevant literature in psychology, communications and literary criticism is followed by an analysis which seeks to integrate this research, to provide a new perspective on the audience's interpretations.
Table of Contents
- The social psychology of the television viewer
- the active viewer
- the role of the text in social psychology
- the resourceful reader
- viewers' representations of television characters
- representation and mediation
- divergent interpretations of television drama
- audiences and interpretations.
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