Common Sense: Intelligence as Presented on Popular Television

by Amy H. Sturgis, Lisa Holderman, Cheryl Campanella Bracken

Book Overview

This anthology examines the constructions of intelligence and intellectuality in popular television and the socio-cultural implications of those constructions. It considers the complexity of popular television images, the influences of these images as they both verify and vilify intelligence, and explores a range of representations of intelligence on television by looking at a variety of TV genres and through a variety of theoretical perspectives...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739115219
• ISBN13: 9780739115213
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.0"