Understanding society, culture, and television
Title:
Understanding society, culture, and television
Author:
Monaco, Paul.
ISBN:
9780313019647
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Publication Information:
Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1998.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (viii, 141 p.)
Contents:
Storytelling and television -- Television and the Aesthetics of power, virtuosity, and repetition -- Co, mon conte, porary themes -- Agendas, politics, and television -- Globalization television -- Wellsprings of our discontent with television -- Television and Government -- Art for whose sake?-- What everyone must know about television.
Abstract:
What is the real nature of television, and what is its place in contemporary society and culture? In a provocative rethinking of the medium and its ensuing effects, this book argues that we have misunderstood television and have thus contributed to a distorted view of art and culture in the 20th century. During the final quarter of this century both in academic and popular circles, we have spread wildly exaggerated claims about television's undermining of human consciousness and behavior. Television has become a scapegoat for all sorts of societal and cultural ills. The arguments presented by.
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