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Television truths: Forms of knowledge in popular culture

The trajectory of the work is entirely new. All 4 Introductions and Chapter 1 is new content, all other chapters have been revised: 2 applies the general model (value chain) to TV in this book; 3 applies the general model (frequency) to media epistemology, refining the model; 4 links to 3, making a new time/space sequence; 5 reworks material, with new diagrams/concluding section; 7 Figures/citations updated and arguments revised; 8, 9 & 10 together make a new ‘overall case’ about TV aesthetics; 12 recasts earlier work to consider the relations between formal (educational) and informal (popular culture) knowledge.

It is the culmination of a decade’s work following Uses of Television (1999). It investigates television’s contribution to the formation of knowledge in popular culture, analysing it in terms of epistemology, ethics/politics, aesthetics and metaphysics. Each of the 12 chapters (reworked from papers published in this REF period and not submitted) covers a separate and substantial research problem, requiring extensive data-gathering, historical, analytical, comparative and reconceptualising work, covering TV genres and TV studies in Europe, the USA, Australia and China.