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OverviewTaking inspiration from Richard Hoggart's classic The Uses of Literacy , John Hartley considers the usefulness of both television and television studies. He re-reads the history of broadcast TV's earliest moments, tracing the critical reception television has received from the 1930s to the present. Uses of Television asks 'improper questions' about what television, and TV Studies too, have been for: about the effect of the vast, unknowable audience on television; about the role of television in promoting 'cultural citizenship' by means of 'transmodern teaching'; and about the effects of knowledge produced in the formal study of television. Via a consideration of neglected aspects of media and domestic history, from the 1930s film Housing Problems to Clarissa Explains It All , from the fridge to Umberto Eco's daughter, Hartley argues that this much-maligned medium can be reassessed in a more positive light. 'Democratainment' and 'do-it-yourself citizenship' are the latest manifestations of a civic and cultural education that TV performs even as it entertains. Full Product DetailsAuthor: John HartleyPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.566kg ISBN: 9780415085083ISBN 10: 041508508 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 17 December 1998 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents1 (Pre-script) Persona: 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 12 Democratainment: television and cultural citizenship 13 Influx of the feared: democratization, schooling, cultural studies 14 Clueless? Not! DIY citizenship 15 (Post-script) Suburbanality (in cultural studies)ReviewsWell illustrated with examples, most of the British or European, the volume makes for one of the more thoughtful assessments of television's role and potential. For extensive collections supporting course work in international communication at the upper-division undergraduate level and above. <br>-Choice, July/August '99 <br> Well illustrated with examples, most of the British or European, the volume makes for one of the more thoughtful assessments of television's role and potential. For extensive collections supporting course work in international communication at the upper-division undergraduate level and above. -Choice, July/August '99 'This is a book oozing with ideas and insight ... I loved this book: it is intellectually engaging, challenging and profoundly useful.' - Gay Hawkins, Media International Australia Author InformationJohn Hartley is Professor and Head of the School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies at Cardiff University, and Director of the Tom Hopkinson Centre for Media Research Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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