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Consuming Environments: Television and Commercial Culture Paperback - 1999

by Steve Craig; Mike Budd; Clay Steinman

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Whether we love it, hate it, or use it just to pass the time, most adults in the United States are watching more television than ever, up to four hours a day by some estimates. Or devotion to commercial television gives it unprecedented power in our lives.

Advertisers and television executives want us to spend as much time as we can in front of our sets, for it is access to our brains that they buy and sell. Yet the most important effect of television may be one that no one intends--accelerated destruction of the natural environment.

Consuming Environments explores how, with its portrayals of a world of simulated abundance, television has nurtured a culture of consumerism and overconsumption. The average person in the U.S. consumes more than twice the grain and ten times the oil of a citizen in Brazil or Indonesia. And people in less industrialized countries suffer while their resources are commandeered to support comfortable lifestyles in richer nations. Using detailed examples illustrated with images from actual commercials, news broadcasts, and television shows, the authors demonstrate how ads and programs are put together in complex ways to manipulate viewers, and they offer specific ways to counteract the effects of TV and overconsumption's assault on the environment.

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  • Title Consuming Environments: Television and Commercial Culture
  • Author Steve Craig; Mike Budd; Clay Steinman
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: First
  • Pages 248
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ and London
  • Publication date 1999-02
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • ISBN 9780813525921 / 0813525926
  • Weight 1.16 lbs (0.53 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.95 x 6.99 x 0.65 in (25.27 x 17.75 x 1.65 cm)
  • Category Pop Arts / Pop Culture
  • Library of Congress subjects Television broadcasting - Social aspects, Television broadcasting - Influence
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 98-22954
  • Dewey Decimal Code 302.234

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  • Booklist, 02/01/1999, Page 946

About the author

MIKE BUDD is a professor of communication and the director of the film and video program at Florida Atlantic University. He is editor of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Steve Craig is a professor and the chair of the department of radio, television, and film at the University of North Texas. He is editor of Men, Masculinity, and the Media. Clay Steinman is a professor and the chair of communication studies at Macalester College.
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