Television Truths: Forms of Knowledge in Popular Culture

ISBN: 978-1-4051-6979-0

Paperback

304 pages

December 2007, Wiley-Blackwell

Other Available Formats: Hardcover

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Explores the pervasive, persuasive, and powerful nature of television: among the most criticized phenomena of modern life, but still the most popular pastime ever
Written by John Hartley, one of television’s best known scholars
Considers how television reflects and shapes contemporary life across the economic, political, social and cultural spectrum, examining its influence from historical, political and aesthetic perspectives
Probes the nature of, and future for, television at a time of unprecedented change in technologies and business plans
Provides an up-to-date analysis of content and cultural uses, from the television live event, to its global political influence, through to the concept of the “TV citizen”
Maps out a new paradigm for understanding television, for its research and scholarship, and for the very future of the medium itself