Television : technology and cultural form / Raymond Williams ; edited by Ederyn Williams ; with a new preface by Roger Silverstone.
2003
301:62 W721
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301:62 W721
Title
Television : technology and cultural form / Raymond Williams ; edited by Ederyn Williams ; with a new preface by Roger Silverstone.
Language
English
Author
Williams, Raymond.
Added Author
Williams, Ederyn.
Imprint
London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.
Description
xvii, 172 p. ; 20 cm.
Series
Routledge classics
Summary
[Publisher description] Twenty-first century TV offers an apparently endless stream of images, unfolding at high speed. We no longer watch individual programs but flick from channel to channel, absorbing a continuous flow of news, game shows, comedy, drama, movies, advertising and trailers. Television: Technology and Cultural Form was first published in 1974, long before the dawn of multi-channel TV, or the reality and celebrity shows that now pack the schedules. Yet Williams' analysis of television's history, its institutions, programs and practices, and its future prospects, remains remarkably prescient. TV offers an apparently endless engagement with a flood of Williams stresses the importance of technology in shaping the cultural form of television, while always resisting the determinism of Marshall McLuhan's dictum that "the medium is the message". If the medium really is the message, Williams asks, what is left for us to do or say? Williams argues that, on the contrary, we as viewers have the power to disturb, disrupt and to distract the otherwise cold logic of history and technology - not just because television is part of the fabric of our daily lives, but because new technologies continue to offer opportunities, momentarily outside the sway of transnational corporations or the grasp of media moguls, for new forms of self and political expression.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [162]-165) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
The technology and the society
Institutions of the technology
The forms of television
Programming : distribution and flow
Effects of the technology and its uses
Alternative technology, alternative uses?
Institutions of the technology
The forms of television
Programming : distribution and flow
Effects of the technology and its uses
Alternative technology, alternative uses?
ISBN
0415314569
Location
Library Reading Room 301:62 W721
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General Collection