Description
Book SynopsisTelevision Truths considers what we know about TV, whether we love it or hate it, where TV is going, and whether viewers should bother going along for the ride.
Trade Review“The author describes this broad survey as ‘a sustained reflection on the tensions produced by the problem of knowledge in and about television.’ Hartley argues that television's history and historiography have not been well done thus far. The book as a whole offers something of a philosophy of television. Recommended.” (
Choice Reviews, December 2008)
Table of ContentsList of Figures.
List of Tables.
Acknowledgments.
1. Television Truths (Argumentation of TV).
Part I: Is TV True? (Epistemology of TV):.
2. The Value Chain of Meaning.
3. Public Address Systems: Time, Space, and Frequency.
4. Television and Globalization.
Part II: Is TV a Polity? (Ethics/Politics of TV):.
5. Television, Nation, and Indigenous Media.
6. A Television Republic?.
7. Reality and the Plebiscite.
Part III: Is TV Beautiful? (Aesthetics of TV):.
8. From a “Wandering Booby” to a Field of Cows: The Television Live Event.
9. Shakespeare, Big Brother, and the Taming of the Self.
10. Sync or Swim? Plebiscitary Sport and Synchronized Voting.
Part IV: What Can TV Be? (Metaphysics of TV):.
11. “Laughs and Legends” or the Furniture that Glows? Television as History.
12. Television in Knowledge Paradigms.
References.
Index
