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Father Knows Best: One Corporation's Use of Televised Images and Rhetoric of Family and Fairness for Control of Employee Population

This thesis is a close textual analysis of three videotapes produced at Texas Instruments. The first chapter outlines the background of corporate video and some of the methods used in the analysis. Chapter II discusses the origins of televisual conventions and traces their migration to the corporate sector's video production efforts. Chapter III is the analysis of three videotapes produced at Texas Instruments. Chapter IV contains conclusions and discussion of the findings, including how cultural myths are articulated and produced, The appendix contains freeze frame examples of the shows analyzed and representative frames from Father Knows Best and The Donna Reed Show for use as a basis of comparison.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc798466
Date08 1900
CreatorsGiese, Jon Mark
PublisherUniversity of North Texas
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
FormatText
RightsPublic, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights

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