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Uses of Television

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How does television function within society? Why have both its programs and its audiences been so widely denigrated?

Taking inspiration from Richard Hoggart's classic study The Uses of Literacy, John Hartley's new book is a lucid defense of the place of television in our lives, and of the usefulness of television studies. Hartley re-conceptualizes television as a transmodern medium, capable of reuniting government, education and media, and of creating a new kind of cultural teaching which facilitates communication across social and geographical boundaries. He provides a historical framework for the development of both television and television studies, his focus ranging from an analysis of the early documentary, to the much-overlooked cultural impact of the refrigerator.

Beyond Representation: Television Drama and the Politics and Aesthetics of Identity

"Beyond Representation" poses the question as to whether over the last thirty years there have been signs of 'progress' or 'progressiveness' in the representation of 'marginalised' or subaltern identity categories within television drama in Britain and the US. In doing so, it interrogates some of the key assumptions concerning the relationship between aesthetics and the politics of identity that have influenced and informed television drama criticism during this period. Beyond Representation: Television Drama and the Politics and Aesthetics of Identity
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Television Fundamentals by John Watkinson, ISBN 0240514114

The word 'television' today means moving pictures in colour, with sound, brought to the viewer by terrestrial or satellite broadcast, cable or recording medium. The techniques and processes necessary to create, record, deliver and display television pictures form the major part of this book. Television Fundamentals is written in clear English, with a minimum of mathematics. Readers are taken, in a logical sequence of small steps, through the fundamental principles of the subject, with practical applications and a guide to troubleshooting included. Encoding, decoding, recording and transmission are treated in depth. Television Fundamentals by John Watkinson, ISBN 0240514114
Lcd television > Television Fundamentals by John Watkinson, ISBN 0240514114