Uses of Television

By: John Hartley

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Hardcover | 17 December 1998 | Edition Number 1

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Taking inspiration from Richard Hoggart's classic The Uses of Literacy , John Hartley considers the usefulness of both television and television studies. He re-reads the history of broadcast TV's earliest moments, tracing the critical reception television has received from the 1930s to the present. Uses of Television asks 'improper questions' about what television, and TV Studies too, have been for: about the effect of the vast, unknowable audience on television; about the role of television in promoting 'cultural citizenship' by means of 'transmodern teaching'; and about the effects of knowledge produced in the formal study of television. Via a consideration of neglected aspects of media and domestic history, from the 1930s film Housing Problems to Clarissa Explains It All , from the fridge to Umberto Eco's daughter, Hartley argues that this much-maligned medium can be reassessed in a more positive light. 'Democratainment' and 'do-it-yourself citizenship' are the latest manifestations of a civic and cultural education that TV performs even as it entertains.

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"Well illustrated with examples, most of the British or European, the volume makes for one of the more thoughtful assessments of television's role and potential. For extensive collections supporting course work in international communication at the upper-division undergraduate level and above." -Choice, July/August '99

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Figures	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. ix
(Pre-script) Per-sona: selves, knowledge, books	p. 1
What are the uses of television studies? A modern archaeology	p. 15
TV studies as cross-demographic communication	p. 27
Television as transmodern teaching	p. 38
Teaching not power: ideological atrocities and improper questions	p. 48
Knowledge, television and the 'textual tradition'	p. 55
Brief encounters, khaki shorts and wilful blindness: television without television	p. 71
Housing television: a film, a fridge and social democracy	p. 92
Democracy as defeat: the social eye of cultural studies	p. 112
Schools of thought: desire and fear; discourse and politics	p. 127
People who knead people: permanent education and the amelioration of manners	p. 140
Democratainment: television and cultural citizenship	p. 154
Influx of the feared: democratization, schooling, cultural studies	p. 166
Clueless? Not! DIY citizenship	p. 177
(Post-script) Suburbanality (in cultural studies)	p. 189
Glossary of concepts and neologisms	p. 204
Do-It-Yourself TV studies	p. 225
References	p. 235
Index	p. 242
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