Michael Suman

Religion and Prime Time Television (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

How is religion portrayed on prime time entertainment television and what effect does this have on our society? This book brings together the opinions of all the important factions involved in this important public policy debate, including religious figures (Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, and Freethinkers-liberal and conservative), academics, media critics and journalists, and representatives of the entertainment industry. The debate provides contrasting views on how much and what type of religion should be on entertainment television and what relationship this has with the health of our society. Many contributors also offer strategies for how to reform the present situation. This is an important work that delineates the debate for the layperson as well as researchers, scholars, and policymakers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 1997
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313025228
• Artikelnr.: 37824803

Autorenporträt

MICHAEL SUMAN is Research Director of the UCLA Center for Communication Policy and a member of the faculty of the UCLA Department of Communication Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Conference Speeches by Religious Figures It Is Time to End Religious
Bigotry by Donald E. Wildmon Why Not More Programs Like "The Waltons"? by
John Patrick Foley Tuning In to Common Concerns: An Invitation from the
Churches to the Media Industry by Joan Brown Campbell Articles by Religious
Leaders God Taboo in Prime Time? by Ellwood Kieser Unbelievers and Prime
Time Television by Dan Barker On Bringing the Religious and Television
Communities Together by A. James Rudin The Buddhist Perspective on
Television Programming by Havanpola Ratanasara Articles by Academics What
You See Is What You Get: Religion on Prime Time Fiction Television by
Margaret R. Miles Reflections on Culture Wars: Churches, Communication
Content, and Consequences by Judith M. Buddenbaum Blurred Boundaries:
Religion and Prime Time Television by Wade Clark Roof Do We Really Need
More Religion on Fiction Television? by Michael Suman Reel Arabs and
Muslims by Jack G. Shaheen Articles by Media Critics/Journalists Religion
and Prime Time Television by Thomas Plate Hollywood Makes Room for Religion
by Michael Medved A Cacophony of Prime Time Religions? by Theodore Baehr
Articles by Industry Representatives Religion, Revenue, and Ratings: Some
Thoughts on Faith in Prime Time Television by Lionel Chetwynd Ramblings on
Why Things Are the Way They Are by Bob Gale A Contrariant View of Religion
and TV by Danny Goldberg Addendum: In Response to Wildmon by Gabriel
Rossman