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