Meanings of the Medium: Perspectives on the Art of Television

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The latest addition to the Media and Society Series, "Meanings of the Medium" takes a new approach to the study of the past, present, and future of television. Most of its authors are not media experts but literary critics, philosophers, rhetoricians, and historians. They use their unique skills to examine three interwoven themes: the origin and meaning of American attitudes toward television, the relationship between "high" art and television's popular art, and the relationship between particular kinds of programmes and the audience's sensibilities. Stressing an aesthetic and historical approach, the volume directs itself to the reasons why people watch particular programmes and what these patterns tell us about ourselves.

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KATHERINE USHER HENDERSON is Professor of English and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Dominican College of San Raphael. The author of Joan Didion, she has published extensively on women's studies and contemporary writers. JOSEPH ANTHONY MAZZEO is Avalon Foundation Professor Emeritus in the Humanities at Columbia University. He is the author of eight books including Varieties of Interpretation, Renaissance and Revolution: The Remaking of European Thought, The Design of Life: Major Themes in Biological Thought.