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Technologies Of Truth: Cultural Citizenship and the Popular Media
Toby Miller
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Description for Technologies Of Truth: Cultural Citizenship and the Popular Media
Paperback. Series: Visible Evidence S. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD; KNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 253 x 176 x 16. Weight in Grams: 526.
Offers an original and refreshing discussion of the media’s effect on everyday culture.
In a world ever more complex and media-saturated, what is the value of the truth? In Technologies of Truth, Toby Miller provides a pithy and clear-sighted examination of how television, magazines, film, and museums influence the way our society conceptualizes such issues as citizenship, democracy, nationhood, globalization, truth, and fiction. Along the way, he explicates surprising connections between cultural objects and discourses, producing a new meeting ground for cultural, social, and political theory.
Miller examines a remarkable range of sources and topics, including naked footballers and the male ... Read moreCentral to Miller’s argument is his concept of “cultural citizenship.” Based in part on Michel Foucault’s idea of governmentality, cultural citizenship is made up of the seemingly indirect public processes-sports, radio, film, and arts policies-by which members of society are drawn into postindustrial state structures. Miller also proposes a program through which intellectuals might play a more active role in studying, criticizing, and participating in the formation of governmental cultural policy, implementing his vision of what cultural citizenship should be.In Technologies of Truth, cultural studies meets the social sciences with a unique combination of rigor and politics. In a writing style that is spicy, personal, and full of incident, Miller turns the ephemera of everyday life into an entertaining and necessary critique of our times. Show LessProduct Details
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Series
Visible Evidence S.
Condition
New
Weight
525g
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816629855
SKU
V9780816629855
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About Toby Miller
Toby Miller is associate professor in the Department of Cinema Studies at New York University and author of The Well-Tempered Self: Citizenship, Culture, and the Postmodern Subject (1993), Contemporary Australian Television (with Stuart Cunningham, 1994), and The Avengers (1997). He also is editor of the Journal of Sport and Social Issues and coeditor of Social Text.
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