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Peer reviewedCantor, Muriel G.; Cantor, Joel M. – Communication Research: An International Quarterly, 1986
Suggests that the fact that every country has its own system of cultural values and beliefs that decides the popularity of television programs, which plays a decisive role in influencing the types of shows imported from the United States. (DF)
Descriptors: Commercial Television, Cultural Traits, Exports, International Trade
Mancini, Paolo – 1986
This paper defines indicators related to the dramatization of television and formulates a methodology for analyzing the discourse of the television news based on empirical studies. This methodology is used to isolate some indicators of dramatization as it relates to the structure and form of the message. The changes that have affected the text of…
Descriptors: Broadcast Industry, Dramatics, Foreign Countries, Journalism
McBride, Stephanie – 1986
This paper discusses the relationship between national identity and the so-called "marginal" areas of Irish television, i.e., advertisements, continuity announcements, and promotional trailers. The following issues are considered: (1) how these "spaces" between television programs compare in terms of use and influence to…
Descriptors: Broadcast Industry, Commercial Television, Foreign Countries, Government Role
La Place, Maria – 1986
This paper examines the dominant genre of the last American television season--the action/adventure/law enforcement show--and discusses differences between this genre and television shows in the 1950s to 1970s. Today's programs are described in terms of the similarities they exhibit with the strategies of the New Right and the apparent…
Descriptors: Females, Graphic Arts, Law Enforcement, Mass Media Effects
White, Mimi – 1986
Although "The Equalizer" and "Finder of Lost Loves" are different kinds of prime time fiction--urban thriller on the one hand and fantasy melodrama on the other--they share an underlying dramatic structure and symbolic problematic in their repeated enactments of a therapeutic cure overseen by a mediating, authority figure. The…
Descriptors: Broadcast Industry, Conflict, Content Analysis, Discourse Analysis
Rabinovitz, Lauren – 1986
The situation comedy (sitcom) as a televisual text specifically encourages one type of decoding through its own encoding. Through the reciprocity of encoding to decoding, feminist sitcoms accord a privileged position to the dominant code, while acknowledging deviance or opposition to it through a highly demarcated female subject position. Relying…
Descriptors: Broadcast Industry, Characterization, Consumer Economics, Content Analysis
Gomez, Guillermo Orozco – 1986
This paper makes a critical exploration into the core epistemological assumptions of mainstream television effects research and explains why the mainstream study of the cognitive impact of television on children suffers from two reductionist tendencies, i.e., television is understood by most researchers to be solely a technical medium, and most…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Beliefs, Children, Cognitive Development
