Television and taste hierarchy: The case of Dutch television comedy

Media, Culture and Society

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 359-378

  Kuipers, Giselinde ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cultural knowledge; Encoding decoding; Highbrow lowbrow; Humour; Legitimate taste; Television audiences

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645677996     PISSN: 01634437     EISSN: 14603675     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0163443706062884     Document Type: Article

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