Seeing Things: Television in an Age of UncertaintyJohn Ellis outlines here his ambitious project of redefining our view of television. Using the idea of "witness" to explore both television and its audiences, he focuses on the fudamental changes that this powerful medium has gone through in the last twenty years, demonstrating how it uses all the means at its disposal, from scheduling and talk shows to documentaries and computer graphics, to mediate between conflicting approaches to our modern age. |
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Contents
A New Way of Perceiving the World | 6 |
Witness Through the Twentieth Century | 17 |
Scarcity | 39 |
Availability | 61 |
Television in the Age | 74 |
Working Through and the Videographic | 91 |
Working Through and the Genres of Television | 102 |
Where Power Lies in Television | 130 |
From OfferLed to DemandLed | 148 |
Plenty | 162 |
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| Title | Seeing Things: Television in an Age of Uncertainty |
| Author | John Ellis |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | I.B.Tauris, 2000 |
| ISBN | 1860641253, 9781860641251 |
| Length | 193 pages |
| Subjects | › › Performing Arts / Film / General Performing Arts / Television / History & Criticism Social Science / Media Studies |
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