Television and the moral imaginary : society through the small screen /

Television and the moral imaginary : society through the small screen /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Dant, Tim, 1951-
Imprint:	Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Description:	viii, 239 p. ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Television broadcasting -- Moral and ethical aspects. Television broadcasting -- Social aspects. Television broadcasting -- Moral and ethical aspects. Television broadcasting -- Social aspects.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8945772

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ISBN:	9780230234819 (hardback) 023023481X (hardback)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"Just how bad is television? Drawing on a range of theoretical sources including Husserl Lacan, Lefebvre, Sartre, Schutz and Adam Smith, this book takes a phenomenological approach to the small screen to offer an original sociological approach to television and its contribution to moral culture of late modern societies"--

Table of Contents:

Introduction - the Small Screen and Morality
Morality on Television
Sociology and the Moral Order
Televisuality: Style and the Small Screen
The Phenomenology of Television
Society and the Small Screen
Mediating Morality
Television and the Imaginary
Conclusion
Endnotes
References
Index