Download or read book Prime-Time Families written by Ella Taylor and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1989-09-14 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prime-Time Families provides a wide-ranging new look at television entertainment in the past four decades. Working within the interdisciplinary framework of cultural studies, Ella Taylor analyzes television as a constellation of social practices. Part popular culture analysis, part sociology, and part American history, Prime-Time Families is a rich and insightful work the sheds light on the way television shapes our lives.