Feedback: Television Against Democracy

by David Joselit

Book Overview

In a world where politics is conducted through images, the tools of art history can be used to challenge the privatized antidemocratic sphere of American television.

American television embodies a paradox: it is a privately owned and operated public communications network that most citizens are unable to participate in except as passive specators. Television creates an image of community while preventing the formation of actual social...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262101203
• ISBN13: 9780262101202
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher