Daytime Television Gameshows and the Celebration of Merchandise: The Price Is Right
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A neglected genre that promises to shed light on the culture of consumption appears in the form of the daytime television game shows whose hegemonic message seems to convey and to justify a widespread obeisance to the mandate of materialism. A close analysis of the longest running game show, The Price Is Right, suggests that all facets of this program combine to reinforce its central meaning as a ritualistic validation of consumption-oriented...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0879726202
ISBN13:9780879726201
Release Date:January 1993
Publisher:Popular Press
Length:125 Pages
Weight:0.85 lbs.
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