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