Viewers Like You: How Public TV Failed the People

Laurie Oullette

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Paper, 288 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-11943-6
$29.00 / £20.00

September, 2002
Cloth, 288 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-11942-9
$90.00 / £62.00

Introduction: The Cultural Contradictions of Public Television

Oasis of the Vast Wasteland

The Quest to Cultivate

TV Viewing as Good Citizenship

Something for Everyone

Radicalizing Middle America

Epilogue: Public Television, Popularity, and Cultural Justice

Related Subjects

• Media Studies
• Television Studies

About the Author

Laurie Ouellette is assistant professor of media studies at Queens College, City University of New York. She has written for the Utne Reader, The Independent Film and Video Monthly, Cultural Studies, and Television and New Media, among other publications

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