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Imprint:Albany : State University of New York Press, c1991.
Description:viii, 189 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:SUNY series in the philosophy of the social sciences
SUNY series in human communication processes
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1100689
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Other title:Video icons and values.
Other authors / contributors:Olson, Alan M.
Parr, Christopher, 1955-
Parr, Debra, 1958-
ISBN:0791404110
0791404129 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-172) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Video Icons & Values: An Overview
  • 2. Video Ergo Sum
  • 3. Television and the Shaping of Cognitive Skills
  • 4. The Emperor Has Only Clothes: Toward a Hermeneutic of the Video Text
  • 5. The Electronic Golden Calf
  • 6. Power and Pleasure in Video Texts
  • 7. In Video Veritas: The Mythic Structures of Video Dynamics
  • 8. Selling Out Max Headroom
  • 9. What is "Soul"?
  • 10. An Afterword: Beyond Lamentation
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Contributors
  • Index