Hartley Television Truths

Forms of Knowledge in Popular Culture
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-69335-3
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten, E-Book

Television Truths considers what we know about TV, whetherwe love it or hate it, where TV is going, and whether viewersshould bother going along for the ride. This engaging volume,written by one of television's best known scholars, offers a newtake on the history of television and an up-to-date analysis of itsimaginative content and cultural uses.
* * Explores the pervasive, persuasive, and powerful nature oftelevision: among the most criticized phenomena of modern life, butstill the most popular pastime ever
* Written by John Hartley, one of television's best knownscholars
* Considers how television reflects and shapes contemporary lifeacross the economic, political, social and cultural spectrum,examining its influence from historical, political and aestheticperspectives
* Probes the nature of, and future for, television at a time ofunprecedented 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 itsresearch and scholarship, and for the very future of the mediumitself

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hartley, John

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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: TheTelevision Live Event.
9. Shakespeare, Big Brother, and the Taming of the Self.
10. Sync or Swim? Plebiscitary Sport and SynchronizedVoting.
Part IV: What Can TV Be? (Metaphysics of TV):.
11. "Laughs and Legends" or the Furniture thatGlows? Television as History.
12. Television in Knowledge Paradigms.
References.
Index

Über Autor(innen)

John Hartley is a Distinguished Professor at Queensland University of Technology and Adjunct Professor of the Australian National University. Hartley is the author of 15 books, including Creative Industries, A Short History of Cultural Studies, and Communication, Cultural and Media Studies: The Key Concepts. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.