Paul Monaco

Understanding Society, Culture, and Television (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

What is the real nature of television, and what is its place in contemporary society and culture? In a provocative rethinking of the medium and its ensuing effects, this book argues that we have misunderstood television and have thus contributed to a distorted view of art and culture in the 20th century. During the final quarter of this century both in academic and popular circles, we have spread wildly exaggerated claims about television's undermining of human consciousness and behavior. Television has become a scapegoat for all sorts of societal and cultural ills. The arguments presented by many researchers on behalf of the ill-effects of TV are fundamentally weak and flawed. On the eve of the 21st century, the claimed distinctions between high art and popular culture have become a final, hopeless repository of pedantry. Television can be understood only by viewing it as an art form, and measuring its role in society and culture in concert with the first principles of human reason and liberty.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2000
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313019647
• Artikelnr.: 54144907

Autorenporträt

PAUL MONACO is the Department Head of Media & Theatre Arts and Professor of Cinema/Video at Montana State University, Bozeman. He is the author of several books on the cinematic arts and the history of culture, as well as being a filmmaker and video producer. As a producer/director for Montana Public Television, he has been responsible for numerous productions which have shown on public television, both regionally and nationally. Among these productions are Home to Montana, Bison in the Killing Fields, and Women, War, and Work (co-produced with his wife Dr. Victoria O'Donnell).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface The Art and Nature of Television Storytelling and Television
Television and the Aesthetics of Power, Virtuosity, and Repetition Social
Dimensions of Television Common Themes and Contemporary Commentary Agendas,
Politics, and Television Globalization and Television Television and Civil
Society Wellsprings of Our Discontent with Television Television and
Advertising Television and Government Television and Contemporary Culture
Art for Whose Sake? What Everyone Must Know About Television Afterword
Bibliography Index