{"product_id":"televisions-moment-9781782386995","title":"Television's Moment","description":"\u003cul\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003e\n\t\tIt reconstructs TV reception in history (very rare, if not unique).\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003e\n\t\tIt develops new methods to reconstruct historical reception processes.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003e\n\t\tIt is a three-country international comparison (very rare).\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003e\n\t\tIts main argument is about TV’s impact on whole societies (also rare; media studies typically shy away from the question of social impact).\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003e\n\t\tIt looks at television as an international and transnational phenomenon (which is a new trend, approx. five years old only).\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003e\n\t\tIt brings the methods and sources of the historian to a field almost exclusively populated by media and film studies scholars.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003e\n\t\tIt’s the first scholarly monograph on any of the three sitcoms (i.e. the first scholarly history of All in the Family, Till Death Us Do Part and Ekel Alfred\/ Ein Herz und eine Seele). NB. In Germany the series is better known under its colloquial name ‘Ekel Alfred’ rather than its official name ‘Ein Herz und eine Seele’.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Christina von Hodenberg","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48308210499835,"sku":"9781782386995","price":135.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781782386995_450055a7-be7c-4e28-970d-9aa0dd7f0545.jpg?v=1772486501","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/televisions-moment-9781782386995","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}