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Television and the Moral Imaginary

Society through the Small Screen

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
  2. Morality on Television

    • Tim Dant
    Pages 21-42
  3. Sociology and the Moral Order

    • Tim Dant
    Pages 43-71
  4. Televisuality

    • Tim Dant
    Pages 72-93
  5. The Phenomenology of Television

    • Tim Dant
    Pages 94-117
  6. Society and the Small Screen

    • Tim Dant
    Pages 118-146
  7. Mediating Morality

    • Tim Dant
    Pages 147-178
  8. Television and the Imaginary

    • Tim Dant
    Pages 179-207
  9. What’s Good on Television?

    • Tim Dant
    Pages 208-215
  10. Back Matter

    Pages 216-239

About this book

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.

Reviews

"Dant's Television and the Moral Imaginary represents a welcome contribution to television studies and serves as a bit of a palliative for the decades of television scholarship that would reduce the medium to the Rodney Dangerfield of media platforms. In fact, Dant's appreciable work represents what's good about emergent television scholarship in the digital age." - David Craig, International Journal of Communication (2013)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Lancaster University, UK

    Tim Dant

About the author

TIM DANT is a professor of Sociology at Lancaster University, UK, and has published books on material culture, critical theory and the sociology of knowledge. He is currently interested in phenomenological approaches to understanding culture and the moral turn in sociological theory.

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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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