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The Entertainment functions of television

Author: Percy H Tannenbaum; Social Science Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Television and Social Behavior.
Publisher: Hillsdale, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 1980.
Edition/Format:   Book : Conference publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Papers based on a conference organized by the Committee on Television and Social Behavior of the Social Science Research Council.
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Genre/Form: Congresses
Material Type: Conference publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Percy H Tannenbaum; Social Science Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Television and Social Behavior.
ISBN: 0898590132 9780898590135
OCLC Number: 5726127
Description: ix, 262 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: An unstructured introduction to an amorphous area / Percy Tannenbaum --
Entertainment as a sociological enterprise / Harold Mendelsohn and H. T. Spetnagel --
The power and limitations of television: a cognitive-affective analysis / Jerome L. Singer --
The audience as critic: a conceptual analysis of television entertainment / Hilde T. Himmelweit, Betty Swift, and Marianne E. Jaeger --Entertainment as vicarious emotional experience / Percy H. Tannenbaum --
Anatomy of suspense / Dolf Zillmann --
Humor and catharsis: the effect of comedy on audiences / Thomas H. Scheff and Stephen C. Scheele --
Toward the integration of entertainment and educational functions of television: the role of humor / Paul E. McGhee --
Television news as entertainment / Leo Bogart.
Responsibility: sponsored by the Social Science Research Council ; edited by Percy H. Tannenbaum.

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Papers based on a conference organized by the Committee on Television and Social Behavior of the Social Science Research Council.

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