Television Culture (Routledge Classics (Paperback)): Television Culture (Routledge Classics (Paperback)) - Softcover

Fiske, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415596475 ISBN 13: 9780415596473

Publisher: Routledge, 2010

Synopsis

Television Culture Television is unique in its ability to produce so much pleasure for such a wide variety of people. This book looks at television's role as an agent of popular culture, and goes on to consider the relationship between this cultural dimension and television's status as a commodity of the cultural industries that are deeply inscribed with capitalism. Full description

About this title

Review:

"If you had to recommend a single work which applies cultural studies clearly, comprehensively, intelligently and generously to a major subject of inquiry, this would be it." Media Information Australia

"Fiske’s analyses skilfully trace the insertion of conflicting social, economic, cultural and political ideologies within the television text." Darrell Y. Hamamoto, Film Quarterly

About the Author:

John Fiske is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0415596475
• ISBN 13: 9780415596473
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 424