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Television and the meaning of 'live' / Paddy Scannell.
- Title
- Television and the meaning of 'live' / Paddy Scannell.
- Author
- Scannell, Paddy
- Publication
- Cambridge : Polity, 2013.
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- Description
- xiii, 264 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- This book is about the question of existence, the meaning of 'life'. It is an enquiry into the contemporary human situation as disclosed by television.
- Alternative Title
- Television and the meaning of live : an inquiry into the human situation
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-252) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Part one: An introduction to the phenomenology of television -- Prologue: Heidegger's teacup -- 1. What is phenomenololgy? -- 2. Available world -- 3. Available self -- 4. Available time --5. Turning on the TV set -- 6. Television and technology -- Part two: Television and the meaning of 'live' -- 7. The meaning of 'live' -- 8. How to talk - on radio -- 9. How to talk - on television -- 10. The moment of the goal - on television -- 11. Being in the moment: the meaning of media events --12. Catastrophe - on television -- 13. Television and history.
- ISBN
- 9780745662541 (hbk.)
- 0745662544 (hbk.)
- 0745662552 (pbk.)
- 9780745662558 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 882526766
- SCSB-10789662
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library