Television truths
By: John Hartley
Publisher: Blackwell, Pub.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Malden, MA; Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9781405169790; 9781405169806
Subjects: Television broadcasting -- Social aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-271) and index
Table of contents: title: Television truths (Argumentation of TV); title: Part I: Is TV True? (Epistemology of TV); title: The value chain of meaning; title: Public address systems: time, space, and frequency; title: Television and globalization; title: Part II: Is TV a Polity? (Ethics/Politics of TV); title: Television, nation, and indigenous media; title: A television republic?; title: Reality and the Plebiscite; title: Part III: Is TV Beautiful? (Aesthetics of TV); title: From a "Wandering Booby" to a Field of Cows: the television Live Event; title: Shakespeare, Big Brother, and the Taming of the Self; title: Sync or swim? Plebiscitary sport and synchronized voting; title: Part IV: What Can TV Be? (Metaphysics of TV); title: "Laughs and Legends" or the furniture that glows? Televison as history; title: Television in knowledge paradigms