Some sense of time: Remembering television

History and Memory

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 5-35

  Bourdon, Jérôme ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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EID: 40949089894     PISSN: 0935560X     EISSN: 15271994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/ham.2003.0008     Document Type: Review

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1. The research presented here was supported by the Institut National de l'Audiovisuel and by France Télévision. I would like to thank Muriel Couton and Béatrice Rincon for their help with the interviews, and Eva Illouz, Dafna Lemish and Dominique Pasquier for their comments on first drafts. An earlier and shorter version was published in French as "Le Flash et le Papier-peint: Mémoires de Télévision," in Jean-Pierre Eskenazi, ed., La Télévision et ses téléspectateurs (Paris, 1995), 14-31.
2. See Kevin G. Barnhurst and Ellen Wartella, "Young Citizens, American TV Newscasts and the Collective Memory," Critical Studies in Mass Communication 15 (1998): 279-305;
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