Television truths
- Author/Creator:
- Hartley, John, 1948-
- Publication/Creation:
- Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell, Pub., 2008
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Full Title:
- Television truths / John Hartley
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- Subjects:
- Television broadcasting--Social aspects
Description/Summary
- Table of Contents:
- Television truths (Argumentation of TV) -- Part I: Is TV True? (Epistemology of TV) -- The value chain of meaning -- Public address systems: time, space, and frequency -- Television and globalization -- Part II: Is TV a Polity? (Ethics/Politics of TV) -- Television, nation, and indigenous media -- A television republic? -- Reality and the Plebiscite -- Part III: Is TV Beautiful? (Aesthetics of TV) -- From a "Wandering Booby" to a Field of Cows: the television Live Event -- Shakespeare, Big Brother, and the Taming of the Self -- Sync or swim? Plebiscitary sport and synchronized voting -- Part IV: What Can TV Be? (Metaphysics of TV) -- "Laughs and Legends" or the furniture that glows? Television as history -- Television in knowledge paradigms.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Type/Description:
- xii, 290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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- Table of contents only
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- Catalog ID (MMSID):
- 990007945440302486
- ISBN:
- 1405169796 (pbk. : alk. paper)
140516980X (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781405169790 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781405169806 (hardcover : alk. paper) - OCLC Number:
- 123029548
- Barcode:
- 010001376012
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