First published in 1989
First published in paperback in 1991
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© 1989, 1991 Ellen Seiter, Hans Borchers, Gabriele Kreutzner, Eva-Maria Warth
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Remote control: television, audiences and cultural power
1. Television programmes. Audiences
I. Seiter, Ellen
302 .2′345
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Remote control : television, audiences, and cultural power / edited by
Ellen Seiter… [et al.].
p. cm.
Papers presented at a symposium held at the University of Tübingen's Heinrich-Fabri-Institute, Blaubeuren, Feb. 17-20, 1987, organized by the University's
Dept. of American Studies.
1. Television broadcasting - Social aspects - Congresses.
2. Television audiences - Congresses . I. Seiter, Ellen
II. Universität Tübingen. Abteilung für Amerikanistik.
PN1992.6.R46 1991
302.23′45—dc20 91-34
ISBN 0-415 -06505-4