Television Truths: Forms of Knowledge in Popular Culture

“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)

“Grand in scope, bold, witty, and engaging, Television Truths fashions a provocative new philosophy for the study and appreciation of both TV and a TV polity.”
–Jonathan Gray, author of Watching with The Simpsons: Television, Parody, and Intertextuality, co-editor of Fandom: Identities and Communities in a Mediated World

“As always, John Hartley’s provocative arguments and examples push against the boundaries and restrictions of conventional approaches. His focus on the multiple contexts of television adds greatly to our store of key questions about ‘television.’”
–Horace Newcomb, Director, George Foster Peabody Awards, The University of Georgia