Uses of television [electronic resource] / John Hartley.
How does television function within society? Why have both its programmes and its audiences been so widely denigrated? Taking inspiration from Richard Hoggarts classic study The Uses of Literacy, John Hartleys new book is a lucid defence of the place of television in our lives, and of the usefulness...
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
1999.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. (Pre-script) Per-sona: 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.