Entertaining television challenges the idea that the BBC in the 1950s was elitist and ‘staid’, upholding Reithian values in a paternalistic, even patronisin
Television entertainment rules supreme, one of the world’s most important disseminators of information, ideas, and amusement. More than a parade of little fig
In this completely revised and updated edition (including eight new chapters), Jeffrey Jones charts the evolution and maturation of political entertainment tele
Contrary to arguments that television is detrimental to democracy, Entertaining Politics explores the role of new political television in shaping a changing civ
First published in 1980. This volume is an indirect product of the activities of the Committee on Television and Social Behavior of the Social Science Research