| Description |
xvi, 207 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Post-contemporary interventions |
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Post-contemporary interventions.
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| Contents |
Pt. I. Televisual Flows. 1. The Outbreak of Television. 2. Image/Machine/Image: Marx and Metaphor in Television Theory -- Pt. II. Commercial Breaks. 3. History, the Eternal Rerun: On Crime Story. 4. Mondino, MTV, and the Laugh of Madonna. 5. "Appetite and Satisfaction, a Golden Circle": Magic and Commerce in Twin Peaks -- Pt. III. Theoretical Images. 6. The Dangers of Being in a Televisual World: Heidegger and the Ontotechnological Question. 7. From Post Cards to Smart Bombs (and Back Again): Derrida and the Televisual Textual System. 8. Ineluctable Modalities of the Televisual |
| Summary |
Five theoretical projects provide Still Life in Real Time with its framework: the cultural studies tradition of Raymond Williams; Marxist political economy; Heideggerian existentialism; Derridean deconstruction; and a Deleuzian anatomy of images. Drawing lessons from television programs like Twin Peaks and Crime Story, television events like the Gulf War, and television personalities like Madonna, Dienst produces a remarkable range of insights on the character of the medium and on the theories that have been affected by it. [from publisher's advertisement] |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [195]-203) and index |
| Subject |
Television broadcasting -- Philosophy.
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Television broadcasting -- Social aspects.
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Television -- Philosophy.
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| LC no. |
93037942 |
| ISBN |
0822314517 (alk. paper) |
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0822314665 (alk. paper : pbk.) |
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