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Publication Date: 1991
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Communication, Values, and Popular Television Series--A Seventeen-Year Assessment.
Chesebro, James W.
Communication Quarterly, v39 n3 p197-225 Sum 1991
Employs a dramatistic system based on the critical frameworks of Kenneth Burke and Northrop Frye to analyze 903 prime-time network television series. Classifies series as ironic, mimetic, leader-centered, romantic, or mythical. Concludes that over the period from 1974-91, series went from individualism, to idealism and authority, to authority alone as predominant conflict resolution values. (RDS)
Descriptors: Communication Research, Individualism, Irony, Leadership, Mythology, Romanticism, Symbolism, Television, Television Research, Television Viewing, Values
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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