Television and the Moral Imaginary: Society through the Small Screen [Hardcover]

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.Introduction - the Small Screen and Morality Morality on Television Sociology and the Moral Order Televisuality: Style and the Small Screen The Phenomenology of Television Society and the Small Screen Mediating Morality Television and the Imaginary Conclusion Endnotes References Index

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)

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.