Television and the moral imaginary
Subtitle: society through the small screen
By: by Tim Dant
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230234819
Subjects: PERFORMING ARTS / Television / History & Criticism; Television broadcasting; Moral and ethical aspects; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies; Social aspects; PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Description: "Just how bad is television? Drawing on a range of theoretical sources including Husserl Lacan, Lefebvre, Sartre, Schutz and Adam Smith, this book takes a phenomenological approach to the small screen to offer an original sociological approach to television and its contribution to moral culture of late modern societies"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Introduction - the Small Screen and Morality - Morality on Television - Sociology and the Moral OrderTelevisuality: Style and the Small ScreenThe Phenomenology of Television - Society and the Small Screen - Mediating Morality- Television and the Imaginary - Conclusion.