Family Television: Cultural Power and Domestic Leisure (Comedia)

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 2
Copyright......Page 3
Acknowledgements......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Introduction......Page 6
Foreword......Page 10
1 Understanding the uses of television......Page 12
 2 Television in the family......Page 18
Family studies......Page 22
Television and family interaction......Page 27
The social uses of television......Page 31
 3 Research development: from ‘decoding’ to viewing context......Page 40
Relation to other research......Page 46
 4 Objectives, methodology and sample design......Page 50
Methodology......Page 51
Sample design......Page 52
Family 1......Page 56
Family 2......Page 61
Family 3......Page 68
Family 5......Page 74
Family 6......Page 80
Family 7......Page 87
Family 10......Page 89
Family 12......Page 95
Family 13......Page 100
Family 17......Page 106
Family 18......Page 109
Family 9......Page 113
Family 14......Page 119
Family 15......Page 122
Family 4......Page 128
Family 8......Page 133
Family 11......Page 139
Family 16......Page 143
 6 Television and gender......Page 150
Power and control over programme choice......Page 152
Styles of viewing......Page 154
Planned and unplanned viewing......Page 157
Amounts of viewing......Page 158
Television related talk......Page 159
Technology—the use of the video machine......Page 162
‘Solo’ viewing and guilty pleasures......Page 164
Programme type preference......Page 167
Channel preferences......Page 172
National and local news programming......Page 174
Comedy preferences......Page 175
Appendix: Numerical analysis of gender-related themes......Page 178
Afterword......Page 180
Notes......Page 182
Other titles from Comedia......Page 185
Organizations and Democracy Series......Page 187