Contributor
Bryant, Jennings.
Edition Statement:2nd ed.
Imprint:Mahwah, NJ : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2001.
Descriptionxiv, 467 p. ; 24 cm.
Note:Evolution in the family's use of television: an overview / Margaret Andreasen. - Television use in families with children / Jennifer A. Kotler, John C. Wright, and Aletha C. Huston. - Home ecology and children's television viewing in the new media environment / David J. Atkin. - Remote control devices and family viewing / James R. Walker and Robert V. Bellamy, Jr. - The VCR, home video culture, and new video technologies / Carolyn A. Lin. - Family attitudes toward television / Dan Brown and Tammy Hayes. - Five decades of families on television: from the 1950s through the 1990s / James D. Robinson and Thomas Skill. - Sibling interaction in situation comedies over the years / Mary Strom Larson. - Balancing acts: work-family issues on prime-time TV / Katharine E. Heintz-Knowles. - Portrayals of families of color on television / Jannette L. Dates and Carolyn A. Stroman. - Subversion of the American television family / William Douglas. - How psychologically healthy are America's prime-time television families? / Jennings Bryant, Charles F. Aust, J. Alison Bryant, and Gopakumar Venugopalan. - The meaning of television in the American family / Alison Alexander. - Conflicts and resolution strategies associated with television in marital life / Walter Gantz. - Effects of television on child and family emotional well-being / Joanne Cantor and Marie-Louise Mares. - Television and the family: the cultivation perspective / Nancy Signorielli and Michael Morgan. - Family mediation / Nancy L. Buerkel-Rothfuss and Rick A. Buerkel. - Effects of family communication on children's interpretation of television / Erica Weintraub Austin. - Mediating advertising effects / David M. BOush. - Curriculum-based preschool television programming and the American family / J. Alison Bryant, Jennings Bryant, Lisa Mullikin, James F. McCollum, and Curtis C. Love. - The effect of television policy on children and families / Marina Krcmar.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
