Prime-Time Society

Authored by Kottak, Conrad Phillip

"The reader will appreciate Prime-Time Society, which is written in a clear style.[it] commands attention because, for the first time it discusses a series of question that are fundamental to television and to modern society." -From the Foreword by Roberto DaMatta, University of Notre Dame "An extremely interesting and ambitious research project..Kottak is correct in concluding that no serious study of modern society can ignore the long-term effects of television." - American Anthropologist

• partOne Television and Culture; chapterOne Television and Cultural Behavior; chapterTwo Studying Television; partTwo The National Level; chapterThree Censors and Gatekeepers; chapterFour Telenovelas, Mass Culture, and National Identity; chapterFive Cultural Contrasts in Prime-Time Society; chapterSix Competition, Achievement, and Information; chapterSeven What's News: Crime, Violence, and the Stranger; partThree The Local Level; chapterEight The Field Sites; chapterNine Television's Social Impact; chapterTen Television's Impact on Attitudes, Fears, Values, Images, and Consumerism; chapterEleven Festivals, Celebrations, and Gift-Giving; chapterTwelve Television and Modern Life; Chapter 13 Epilogue: Stage V '“ The Couch Potato Strikes Back;