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Daytime Television Gameshows and the Celebration of Merchandise: The Price Is Right (Television and Culture)
Daytime Television Gameshows and the Celebration of Merchandise The Price Is Right - Television and Culture
Author: Morris B. Holbrook
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...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780879726201
ISBN-10: 0879726202
Publication Date: 1/1/1993
Pages: 125
Edition: illustrated edition
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Publisher: Popular Press 1
Book Type: Hardcover
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