Prime Time - Lichter, Rothman torrent

The Lichter's and Rothman have laid bare TV's social agenda. This book is insightful, fair-minded, and always interesting.
The authors of this in-depth study analyze the royal road to America's fantasy life: television, which viewers watch for some four hours daily. Concentrating on prime-time series, their characterization and plotlines (news and documentaries are ignored), each area of programming is evaluated: the proliferation of violence (the authors find more violence on one cable outlet than on all the networks combined); sex (foreplay has surpassed gunplay as prime time's favorite pastime); female characterizations from Lucy Ricardo to Murphy Brown; the American family as portrayed from Father Knows Best to Roseanne; homosexuality; race (from Amos 'n' Andy to Archie Bunker); and abortion, one of the few sex-related issues that TV treats gingerly. The authors have written an insightful study aimed at a serious audience.

About the author:
The Lichters are on the staff of the Center for Media and Public Affairs in Washington, D.C.; Rothman directs the Center for the Study of Social and Political Change at Smith College