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International journal of cultural studies, 2005-09, Vol.8 (3), p.353-374
Ort / Verlag
Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications
Erscheinungsjahr
2005
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
In this article, we discuss how primetime programming is unjustly the subject of the
moral panic constructed around television, a moral panic that seems primarily useful
to maintain the high vs low culture dichotomy. To assess the moral content of
primetime television, we used a framework derived from literary culture, since
narratives’ content and morality (or, rather, [moral] imagination) are
primarily discussed within this tradition. We will argue that primetime television
(news, soap operas, sitcoms, and so on) is not only rife with reflections on what
counts as a moral issue, who we are, who the ‘other’ is and
various ways of deliberating moral issues, but also that the content of primetime
programming contradicts the arguments used in the moral panic surrounding primetime television.