Television truths
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Television truths
Blackwell, 2008
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- : hardcover
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Pagination of some printings: xii, 290 p
Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Television Truths considers what we know about TV, whether we love it or hate it, where TV is going, and whether viewers should bother going along for the ride. This engaging volume, written by one of television's best known scholars, offers a new take on the history of television and an up-to-date analysis of its imaginative content and cultural uses.
Explores the pervasive, persuasive, and powerful nature of television: among the most criticized phenomena of modern life, but still the most popular pastime ever
Written by John Hartley, one of television's best known scholars
Considers how television reflects and shapes contemporary life across the economic, political, social and cultural spectrum, examining its influence from historical, political and aesthetic perspectives
Probes the nature of, and future for, television at a time of unprecedented change in technologies and business plans
Provides an up-to-date analysis of content and cultural uses, from the television live event, to its global political influence, through to the concept of the "TV citizen"
Maps out a new paradigm for understanding television, for its research and scholarship, and for the very future of the medium itself
目次
List of Figures. List of Tables.
Acknowledgments.
1. Television Truths (Argumentation of TV).
Part I: Is TV True? (Epistemology of TV):.
2. The Value Chain of Meaning.
3. Public Address Systems: Time, Space, and Frequency.
4. Television and Globalization.
Part II: Is TV a Polity? (Ethics/Politics of TV):.
5. Television, Nation, and Indigenous Media.
6. A Television Republic?.
7. Reality and the Plebiscite.
Part III: Is TV Beautiful? (Aesthetics of TV):.
8. From a "Wandering Booby" to a Field of Cows: The Television Live Event.
9. Shakespeare, Big Brother, and the Taming of the Self.
10. Sync or Swim? Plebiscitary Sport and Synchronized Voting.
Part IV: What Can TV Be? (Metaphysics of TV):.
11. "Laughs and Legends" or the Furniture that Glows? Television as History.
12. Television in Knowledge Paradigms.
References.
Index
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