John Hartley

Uses of Television

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Produktbeschreibung

How does television function within society? Why have both its programs and its audiences been so widely denigrated? Taking inspiration from Richard Hoggarts classic study "The Uses of Literacy, " John Hartley's new book is a lucid defence of the place of television in our lives, and of the usefulness of television studies. Hartley re-conceptualizes television as a transmodern medium, capable of reuniting government, education and media, and of creating a new kind of cultural teaching which facilitates communication across social and geographical boundaries. He provides a historical framework for the development of both television and television studies, his focus ranging from an analysis of the early documentary, to the much-overlooked cultural impact of the refrigerator.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Dezember 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 162mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780415085083
• ISBN-10: 041508508X
• Artikelnr.: 22005704

Autorenporträt

John Hartley is Professor and Head of the School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies at Cardiff University, and Director of the Tom Hopkinson Centre for Media Research

Inhaltsangabe

1 (Pre-script) Persona: selves, knowledge, books 2 What are the uses of
television studies? A modern archaeology 3 TV studies as cross-demographic
communication 4 Television as transmodern teaching 5 Teaching not power:
ideological atrocities and improper questions 6 Knowledge, television and
the 'textual tradition' 7 Brief encounters, khaki shorts and wilful
blindness: television without television 8 Housing television: a film, a
fridge and social democracy 9 Democracy as defeat: the social eye of
cultural studies 10 Schools of thought: desire and fear; discourse and
politics 11 People who knead people: permanent education and the
amelioration of manners 12 Democratainment: television and cultural
citizenship 13 Influx of the feared: democratization, schooling, cultural
studies 14 Clueless? Not! DIY citizenship 15 (Post-script) Suburbanality
(in cultural studies)