Uses of Television

by John Hartley

Book Overview

How does television function within society? Why have both its programmes and its audiences been so widely denigrated? Taking inspiration from Richard Hoggarts classic study The Uses of Literacy, John Hartleys new book is a lucid defence 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415085098
• ISBN13: 9780415085090
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"