Author: Annette Hill
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: audiences, television, entertainment, factual, reality
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2005-01-10
List price: $37.95
ISBN-10: 041526152X
ISBN-13: 9780415261524

Reality TV restores a crucial, and often absent, element to the critical debate about reality television: the voices of people who watch reality programmes. From Animal Hospital to Big Brother, Annette Hill argues that much can be learned from listening to audience discussion about this popular and rapidly changing television genre. Viewers’ responses to reality TV can provide invaluable information to enhance our understanding of both the reality genre and contemporary television audiences. Drawing on quantitative and qualitative audience research to understand how viewers categorise

Author: Annette Hill
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: audiences, television, entertainment, factual, reality
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2005-01-10
List price: $130.00
ISBN-10: 0415261511
ISBN-13: 9780415261517

Reality TV restores a crucial, and often absent, element to the critical debate about reality television: the voices of people who watch reality programmes. From Animal Hospital to Big Brother, Annette Hill argues that much can be learned from listening to audience discussion about this popular and rapidly changing television genre. Viewers’ responses to reality TV can provide invaluable information to enhance our understanding of both the reality genre and contemporary television audiences. Drawing on quantitative and qualitative audience research to understand how viewers categorise

Author: Annette Hill
Publisher: University Of Luton Press
Keywords: violent, movies, response, viewer, entertainment, shocking
Number of Pages: 140
Published: 2005-12-13
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 1860205259
ISBN-13: 9781860205255

This exploration of violence in films questions why adults are often entertained by films that social and cultural consensus considers extreme and brutal. Hill argues that understanding the process of viewing violence is one way to open up the current debate concerning the effects of violence to include objective and broadminded responses to this phenomenon.

Author: Annette Hill
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: reality, genres, documentary, news, factual, audiences, restyling
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2007-07-16
List price: $130.00
ISBN-10: 0415379555
ISBN-13: 9780415379557

Addressing the wide range of programmes and formats from news, to documentary, to popular factual genres, Annette Hill’s new book examines the ways viewers navigate their way through a busy, noisy and constantly changing factual television environment. Restyling Factual TV addresses the wide range of programmes that fall within the category of ’factuality’, from politics, to natural history, to reality entertainment. Based on research with audiences of factual TV, primarily in Sweden and the UK, but with reference to other countries such as the US, this book tackles issues such

Authors:Robert C. Allen, Annette Hill,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: reader, studies, television
Number of Pages: 656
Published: 2003-12-29
List price: $43.95
ISBN-10: 0415283248
ISBN-13: 9780415283243

The Television Studies Reader brings together key writings in the growing field of television studies, providing an invaluable overview of the development of the field, and addressing issues of industry, genre, audiences, production and ownership, and representation. The Reader charts the ways in which television and television studies are being redefined to include new and "alternative" forms and technologies such as cable television, direct satellite/digital broadcasting, home video, video art, video/digital applications on the internet, interactive TV, video surveillance, and convergin

Authors:Gerald Hill, Kathleen Hill, Editors Of Nolo,
Publisher: NOLO
Keywords: dictionary, law, english, plain, nolo
Number of Pages: 477
Published: 2009-05-29
List price: $29.99
ISBN-10: 1413310370
ISBN-13: 9781413310375

Learn the language of the law, without the legalese! Open the average law dictionary and chances are you’ll feel more confused than before you read a word. Nolo’s Plain-English Law Dictionary is different. From "abrogate" to "zero tape", we’ve cut down on the Latin and defined common (and some not-so-common) terms you can really use to understand and access the law. Set aside those dusty, outdated law dictionaries! Written for the 21st century, this essential reference contains complete definitions of the legal terms you need today. If you’re a law student, paralegal,

Authors:John R. Hill, George Pruitt, Lundy Hill,
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: guide, trading, ultimate
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2000-01-15
List price: $90.00
ISBN-10: 0471381357
ISBN-13: 9780471381358

How to Spot Short-Term Trends, Trading Systems That Work, Money Management Techniques, and Patterns for Profit Become the ultimate trader! The Ultimate Trading Guide is your chance to get what every trader wants, but few have: the know-how to develop and correctly use a logic-based, reliable, and profitable methodology for successful buying and selling–now. In this complete tutorial, one of today’s most respected analysts and his partners provide you with all you need to know to develop an original, computerized system that works for you. "Can you make money trading the mar