TY - BOOK AU - Alvarado Manuel AU - Thompson John L TI - The Media Reader SN - 851702597 PY - 1990/// PB - BFI Publishing N2 - The book addresses the pressing question of cultural identity, deals with a range of political and economic issues, and discusses the pleasures which film and television can provide. General Introduction, Cultural Identity, The Whites of Their Eyes, On Counting the Wrong Things, Parody and Marginality, Politics and Economics and Advertising, Individualism Versus Collectivism, Advertising and the Manufacture of Difference, Editorial, Gandhiana and Gandhiology, Visions of Instability: US Television's Law and Order News of El Salvador, Pleasures and Expectations, The Classic TV Detective Genre, Melodrama and Serial Form and Television Today, How ABC Capitalized on Cultural Logic, Prime Time, Hellivision: An Analysis of Video Games, Video Replay, Index ER -