TV Living television, visual culture and media studies
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TV Living
presents the findings of a British Film Institute project in which 500 participants
completed detailed questionnaire-diaries over a five-year period, writing some three and a half
million words on their lives, their television watching, and the relationship between the two.
David Gauntlett and Annette Hill use this extensive survey to explore some of the most
fundamental questions in media and cultural studies, focusing on issues of gender, identity, the
impact of new technologies, and the impact of viewers’ own changing ideas and experiences.
Opening up new areas of debate, the study sheds new light on audiences and their responses
to issues such as sex and violence on television. The structure of the study enables the authors
to track individual respondents’ changing attitudes to new media as they experience life
changes of their own.
Each chapter addresses a major contemporary theme in media studies: how families negotiate
viewing choices, the impact of new technologies such as video, satellite and cable, how young
people make the transition from children’s TV to ‘adult’ programming, viewers’ often guilty
or ambivalent feelings about watching television, and audience responses to representations
of women, disability, and violence. A unique study of contemporary TV audience behaviour
and attitudes,
TV Living
offers a fascinating insight into the complex relationship between
mass media and people’s lives today.
David Gauntlett
is Lecturer in Social Communications at the Institute of Communications
Studies, University of Leeds. He is the author of
Moving
Experiences: Understanding
Television’s Influences and Effects,
and
Video Critical: Children, The Environment and Media
Power,
and edits the website www.theory.org.uk.
Annette Hill
is Senior Lecturer in Mass
Media at the Centre for Communication and Information Studies, University of Westminster.
She is the author of
Shocking Entertainment: Viewer Response to Violent
Movies,
and is editor
of the journal
Framework.
Both David Gauntlett and Annette Hill are Research Fellows at the British Film Institute.
TV Living
Television, culture and everyday life
David Gauntlett and Annette Hill
British Film Institute
Published in association with the British Film Institute
London and New York
First published 1999
by Routledge
11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE
Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge
29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001
Routledge Ltd is a Taylor & Francis Group company
This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2001.
©1999 David Gauntlett and Annette Hill
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form
or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including
photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without
permission in writing from the publishers.
British Library
Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data
TV Living: television, culture and everyday life/David Gauntlett and Annette Hill.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Television viewers – Great Britain – Attitudes. 2. Television – Social aspects – Great
Britain. I. Hlll, Annette. II. Title.
PN1992.55.G38 1999
98–50244
302.23’45’0941–dc21
C I P
ISBN 0-415-18485-I (hbk)
ISBN 0-415-18486-X (pbk)
ISBN 0-203-01172-4 Master e-book ISBN
ISBN 0-203-17395-3 (Glassbook Format)
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