Synopses & Reviews
Exploring how television tells stories about poverty in ideological ways, this book examines how poverty is explained on factual, fictional, and fund-raising television. Using empirical analysis of the presentation of poverty on television, it draws upon an approach that combines production-based research with a qualitative content analysis of a range of television programs that deal with poverty. The book's central contention is that presentation masks the extent and character of poverty.
Synopsis
Exploring how television tells stories about poverty in ideological ways, Devils and Angels examines how poverty is explained on factual, fictional, and fund-raising television.
About the Author
Eoin Devereux, is a lecturer of sociology at the University of Limerick.