Overview

Tele-ology brings together John Hartley's writings on television. Hartley assesses TV as a global and local force, a cultural and textual system and a corporate and domestic, political and artistic object of study. He draws on current critical theory in cultural studies to develop a wide-ranging and thought-provoking view of television broadcasting in Britain, Australia and the USA. The collection includes writings on TV truth and propaganda; on populism in the news; on mythologies of the audience, who, John Hartley suggests, are as fictional as the shows they watch; on TV drama as a photopoetic' genre in the tradition of Shakespeare; on the peculiarities of TV continuity and TV advertising and on the cultural politics of Kylie Minogue and Madonna, The Beverley Hillbillies and Bonanza , and gardening programmes. Tele-ology will not only be of interest to media professionals and lecturers but to TV viewers who are ambitious enough to want to do their job better.

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Author:   John Hartley
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   annotated edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.470kg
ISBN:  

9780415068185

ISBN 10:   0415068185
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   02 April 1992
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Part I Television theory 1 Tele-ology 2 Television and the power of dirt Part II Truth wars 3 Regimes of truth and the politics of reading: a blivit 4 Consciousness razing 5 Home help for populist politics: relational aspects of TV news Part III Paedocracy 6 Invisible fictions 7 The real world of audiences 8 Out of bounds 9 Regimes of pleasure: a fragment Part IV Photopoetics 10 The politics of photopoetry 11 Continuous pleasures in marginal places 12 A state of excitement Part V The art of television 13 Local television: from space to time 14 Quoting not science but sideboards (with Tom O’Regan) 15 Two cheers for paedocracy

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'a good read ... offers and excellent opportunity to catch up on the central writings of one of the central writers in television studies today.' - Media Information Australia

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