Living Room Wars

Living Room Wars Ien Ang Additional Author mixed material bibliography Routledge 1995 monographic 220 Living Room Wars brings together Ien Ang's recent writings on media audiences to ask what it means to live in a world saturated by media. Ang suggests that we cannot understand media audiences without deconstructing the category of 'audience' itself as an institutional and discursive construct. Living Room Wars highlights the inherent contradictions of a 'politics of pleasure' of television consumption: Ang moves beyond the traditional focus on textual meanings to explore the structural and historical representations of television audiences as an integral part of modern culture. Her wide-ranging and illuminating discussion takes in the battle between television and its audiences; the politics of empirical audience research; new technologies and the tactics of television consumption; ethnography and radical contextualism in audience studies; television and fiction and women's fantasy; feminist desire and female pleasure in media consumption; and thetransnational media system. Communication, International; Mass media - Audienc 415128005 C2O library Online catalog (BETA) 302.23 ANG Liv 3731 C2O library & collabtive (Art & Design) LivingRoomWarsIenAng33316_f.jpg 3626 2015-01-02 09:50:52 2015-01-02 09:50:52 machine generated