Pati's Mexican Table
Title | Pati's Mexican Table PDF eBook |
Author | Pati Jinich |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | 293 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Cooking |
ISBN | 0547636474 |
The host of the popular PBS show "Pati's Mexican Table" shares everyday Mexican dishes, from the traditional to creative twists.
Public Radio and Television in America
Title | Public Radio and Television in America PDF eBook |
Author | Ralph Engelman |
Publisher | SAGE Publications |
Total Pages | 355 |
Release | 1996-04-22 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1452246610 |
The origins and evolution of the major insititutions in the United States for noncommercial radio and television are explored in this unique volume. Ralph Engelman examines the politics behind the development of National Public Radio, Radio Pacifica and the Public Broadcasting Service. He traces the changing social forces that converged to launch and shape these institutions from the Second World War to the present day. The book challenges several commonly held beliefs - including that the mass media is simply a manipulative tool - and concludes that public broadcasting has an enormous potential as an emancipatory vehicle.
Producing Public Television, Producing Public Culture
Title | Producing Public Television, Producing Public Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Barry Dornfeld |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | 250 |
Release | 2021-02-09 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 069122532X |
From 1989 to 1991, Barry Dornfeld had an unusual double role on the crew of the major PBS documentary series Childhood. As a researcher for the series, he investigated the relationship between children and media. As an anthropologist, however, his subject was the television production process itself--examining, for example, how producers developed the series, negotiated with their academic advisors, and shaped footage shot around the world into seven programs. He presents the results of his fieldwork in this groundbreaking study--one of the first to take an ethnographic approach to the production of a television show, as opposed to its reception. Dornfeld begins with a broad discussion of public television's role in American culture and goes on to examine documentaries as a form of popular anthropology. Drawing on his observations of Childhood, he considers the documentary form as a kind of "imagining," in which both producers and viewers construct understandings of themselves and others, revealing their conceptions of culture and history and their ideologies of cultural difference and universality. He argues that producers of culture should also be understood as consumers who conduct their work through an active envisioning of the audience. Dornfeld explores as well how intellectual media professionals struggle with the institutional and cultural forces surrounding television that promote entertainment at the expense of education. The book provides a rare glimpse behind the scenes of a major documentary and demonstrates the value of an ethnographic approach to the study of media production.
A Future for Public Service Television
Title | A Future for Public Service Television PDF eBook |
Author | Des Freedman |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Total Pages | 370 |
Release | 2018-05-04 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1906897719 |
A guide to the nature, purpose, and place of public service television within a multi-platform, multichannel ecology. Television is on the verge of both decline and rebirth. Vast technological change has brought about financial uncertainty as well as new creative possibilities for producers, distributors, and viewers. This volume from Goldsmiths Press examines not only the unexpected resilience of TV as cultural pastime and aesthetic practice but also the prospects for public service television in a digital, multichannel ecology. The proliferation of platforms from Amazon and Netflix to YouTube and the vlogosphere means intense competition for audiences traditionally dominated by legacy broadcasters. Public service broadcasters—whether the BBC, the German ARD, or the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation—are particularly vulnerable to this volatility. Born in the more stable political and cultural conditions of the twentieth century, they face a range of pressures on their revenue, their remits, and indeed their very futures. This book reflects on the issues raised in Lord Puttnam's 2016 Public Service TV Inquiry Report, with contributions from leading broadcasters, academics, and regulators. With resonance for students, professionals, and consumers with a stake in British media, it serves both as historical record and as a look at the future of television in an on-demand age. Contributors include Tess Alps, Patrick Barwise, James Bennett, Georgie Born, Natasha Cox, Gunn Enli, Des Freedman, Vana Goblot, David Hendy, Jennifer Holt, Amanda D. Lotz, Sarita Malik, Matthew Powers, Lord Puttnam, Trine Syvertsen, Jon Thoday, Mark Thompson
Public Television
Title | Public Television PDF eBook |
Author | B. J. Bullert |
Publisher | Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | 270 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Documentary films |
ISBN | 9780813524702 |
Public television's original mandate required it to address issues of controversy and facilitate the inclusion of voices and perspectives from outside the established consensus. Through detailed chronology, the author of this text traces how far this obligation has been met.
Viewers Like You
Title | Viewers Like You PDF eBook |
Author | Laurie Oullette |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | 299 |
Release | 2012-07-24 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0231529317 |
How "public" is public television if only a small percentage of the American people tune in on a regular basis? When public television addresses "viewers like you," just who are you? Despite the current of frustration with commercial television that runs through American life, most TV viewers bypass the redemptive "oasis of the wasteland" represented by PBS and turn to the sitcoms, soap operas, music videos, game shows, weekly dramas, and popular news programs produced by the culture industries. Viewers Like You? traces the history of public broadcasting in the United States, questions its priorities, and argues that public TV's tendency to reject popular culture has undermined its capacity to serve the people it claims to represent. Drawing from archival research and cultural theory, the book shows that public television's perception of what the public needs is constrained by unquestioned cultural assumptions rooted in the politics of class, gender, and race.
The Collector of Treasures
Title | The Collector of Treasures PDF eBook |
Author | Bessie Head |
Publisher | Heinemann |
Total Pages | 132 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780435909819 |
Botswana village tales about subjects such as the breakdown of family life and the position of women in this society.