Still life in real time : theory after television
Author/Artist/Editor
Richard Dientst
Type
Book, Hard Copy
Date
1994
Press/Publisher
Duke UP
Language
English
Description
Explores the challenges television has posed for contemporary theories of culture, technology, and media.
From the Post Contemporary Interventions Series edited by Fredric Jameson
Important Notes
Television flows. The outbreak of television --
Image/machine/image --
Marx and metaphor in television theory. Commercial breaks. History, the eternal rerun : on Crime story --
Mondino, MTV, and the laugh of Madonna --
Appetite and satisfaction, a golden circle : magic and commerce in Twin peaks. Theoretical images. The dangers of being in a televisual world : Heidigger and the ontotechnological question --
From post cards to smart bombs (and back again) : Derrida and the television textual system --
Ineluctable modalities of the televisual.
Keywords
television, television studies
ISSN/ISBN
9780822314660
Availability
Available
OCLC
29031381