Television: Technology and Cultural Form / Edition 3

by Raymond Williams

Overview

A tour de force on why our viewing habits can act as a means for good, this book also comes with a warning that in meeting our voracious appetites for television, we may well be destroying liberty itself.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	2900415314564
Publication date:	08/21/2003
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

About the Author

Raymond Williams (1921-1988). British cultural thinker and sociologist Raymond Williams is best known for pioneering the study of popular culture and the media, as well as for being one of the founding fathers of the British cultural studies group.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 The Technology and the Society, Raymond Williams, Ederyn Williams, Roger Silverstone; Chapter 2 Institutions of the Technology, Raymond Williams, Ederyn Williams, Roger Silverstone; Chapter 3 The Forms of Television, Raymond Williams, Ederyn Williams, Roger Silverstone; Chapter 4 Programming: Distribution and Flow, Raymond Williams, Ederyn Williams, Roger Silverstone; Chapter 5 Effects of the Technology and its Uses, Raymond Williams, Ederyn Williams, Roger Silverstone; Chapter 6 Alternative Technology, Alternative Uses?, Raymond Williams, Ederyn Williams, Roger Silverstone;

Editorial Reviews

'Television: Technology and Cultural Form is a powerful and original book which marked the beginning of a new breed of British accounts of television. Instead of focusing solely on the content of television programs, it examined the shaping effect of television's technological structures upon its characteristic forms.' - Graeme Turner, Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, University of Queensland, Australia

'Television: Technology and Cultural Form changed the way people understand TV. For the first time, a sophisticated critic and historian looked at the all medium's aspects—as a domestic technology, an object of public policy, a fetish of capital, a series of texts, and a creator of audiences... It was the first classic of TV studies.' - Toby Miller, New York University

'This book is a classic because it inaugurated ways of thinking about a new technology - television - as part of everyday material culture which are even more pertinent to us now as we enter the digital age.' - Charlotte Brunsdon, University of Warwick, UK

'A critical, insightful, iconoclastic and humane reading of television's first half century.' - Roger Silverstone, London School of Economics

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