America, As Seen on TV

America, As Seen on TV
Author :
Publisher : NYU Press
Total Pages : 288
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781479804764
ISBN-13 : 1479804762
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Book Synopsis America, As Seen on TV by : Clara E Rodríguez

Download or read book America, As Seen on TV written by Clara E Rodríguez and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist, 2020 Latino Book Awards, Best Academic Themed Book The surprising effects of American TV on global viewers As a dominant cultural export, American television is often the first exposure to American ideals and the English language for many people throughout the world. Yet, American television is flawed, and, it represents race, class, and gender in ways that many find unfair and unrealistic. What happens, then, when people who grew up on American television decide to come to the United States? What do they expect to find, and what do they actually find? In America, As Seen on TV, Clara E. Rodríguez surveys international college students and foreign nationals working or living in the US to examine the impact of American television on their views of the US and on their expectations of life in the United States. She finds that many were surprised to learn that America is racially and economically diverse, and that it is not the easy-breezy, happy endings culture portrayed in the media, but a work culture. The author also surveys US-millennials about their consumption of US TV and finds that both groups share the sense that American TV does not accurately reflect racial/ethnic relations in the US as they have experienced them. However, the groups differ on how much they think US TV has influenced their views on sex, smoking and drinking. America, As Seen on TV explores the surprising effects of TV on global viewers and the realities they and US millennials actually experience in the US.


America, As Seen on TV Related Books

America, As Seen on TV
Language: en
Pages: 237
Authors: Clara E. Rodríguez
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-03-20 - Publisher: NYU Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Finalist, 2020 Latino Book Awards, Best Academic Themed Book The surprising effects of American TV on global viewers As a dominant cultural export, American tel
As Seen on TV
Language: en
Pages: 337
Authors: Karal Ann Marling
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996-03-01 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

From the painting-by-numbers fad to the public fascination with the First Lady's apparel to the television sensation of Elvis Presley to the sculptural refineme
America the Edible
Language: en
Pages: 291
Authors: Adam Richman
Categories: Cooking
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-09-27 - Publisher: Rodale Books

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Get ready to devour America. Adam Richman, the exuberant host of Travel Channel's Man v. Food and Man v. Food Nation, has made it his business to root out uniqu
America, As Seen on TV
Language: en
Pages: 237
Authors: Clara E. Rodríguez
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-03-20 - Publisher: NYU Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Finalist, 2020 Latino Book Awards, Best Academic Themed Book The surprising effects of American TV on global viewers As a dominant cultural export, American tel
America Alone
Language: en
Pages: 258
Authors: Mark Steyn
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-04-07 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

"Mark Steyn is a human sandblaster. This book provides a powerful, abrasive, high-velocity assault on encrusted layers of sugarcoating and whitewash over the th