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Discusses broadcasting institutions, programming practices, and media uses in England and the U.S. to uncover relationships between the technology and socio-cultural importance of television
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"'The founding text of television studies. A true Classic: Always worth consulting for its style, scope, and insights.'."
-Jostein Gripsrud
"'This books is a classic because it inaugurated ways of thinking about a new technology - television - as part of everyday material culture which are even more pertinent to us now as we enter the digital age.'."
-Charlotte Brunsdon
"'Williams understood that TV was the theatre of capitalism, the drama of modernity. He took both drama and capitalism seriously, and this book is the result -- a decisive moment in the formation of TV studies as a properly theorized field, and a permanently useful account of cultural form.'."
-John Hartley, Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, University of Queensland
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-Jostein Gripsrud
"'This books is a classic because it inaugurated ways of thinking about a new technology - television - as part of everyday material culture which are even more pertinent to us now as we enter the digital age.'."
-Charlotte Brunsdon
"'Williams understood that TV was the theatre of capitalism, the drama of modernity. He took both drama and capitalism seriously, and this book is the result -- a decisive moment in the formation of TV studies as a properly theorized field, and a permanently useful account of cultural form.'."
-John Hartley, Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, University of Queensland
Raymond Williams (1921-1988). British cultural thinker and sociologist Raymond Williams is best known for pioneering the study of popular culture and the media, as well as for being one of the founding fathers of the British cultural studies group.
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- PublisherSchocken Books
- Publication date1975
- ISBN 10 0805235973
- ISBN 13 9780805235975
- BindingHardcover
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