John Hartley

Television Truths

Forms of Knowledge in Popular Culture

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Television. Love it or hate it, it is still the most popular pastime ever. It reflects and shapes our knowledge of contemporary life across the economic, political, social and cultural spectrum, and yet TV is still among the most criticized phenomena of modern life. Everyone watches it, but everyone's also a critic.

This engaging book, written by one of television's best known experts, invites us to explore television's most controversial coverage and fascinating formats: TV citizenship, live TV, 'plebiscitary' shows, reality TV, synchronized sports and TV's own history. At a time of unprecedented change in technologies and business plans, Hartley explores television's evolving place and transforming role in our knowledge-based society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Blackwell Publishers
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Dezember 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 163mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 430g
• ISBN-13: 9781405169790
• ISBN-10: 1405169796
• Artikelnr.: 23018325

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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

Rezensionen

"The author describes this broad survey as 'a sustained reflection on the tensions produced by the problem of knowledge in and about television.' Hartley argues that television s history and historiography have not been well done thus far. The book as a whole offers something of a philosophy of television. Recommended." ( Choice Reviews , December 2008)