Bøger af John Hartley

Cultural Science is a new way of thinking about culture. The book synthesises recent work across different disciplines, setting out a new, evolutionary approach to cultural studies. Engaging with scientific traditions in a way that previous literature has failed to do, it promises to be break new ground in social scientific scholarship.

An authoritative exploration of the current state of the creative industries, showing how students, researchers, entrepreneurs, practitioners and policy makers can make use of recent advances in the systematic study of the creative process on a population-wide scale.

This is a one-stop introductory text for students wanting to understand the creative industries, what they are, what they do and how they affect our society.

Defending the place of television and television studies, this text re-conceptualizes television as a transmodern medium, capable of reuniting government, education and media, and of creating a new kind of cultural teaching which facilitates communication across social and geographical boundaries.

A timely account of this incredibly popular site of online participatory media. The authors provide a clear and comprehensive overview of this phenomenon. The book also includes important contributions by Henry Jenkins and John Hartley, both experts in this field.

An ambitious rendering of the digital future from a pioneer of media and cultural studies, a wise and witty take on a changing field, and our orientation to it.

'Cultural studies will never be the same again. Whether you're new to the field or a tired old jade, [it] will have you sitting bolt upright in your seat...brimming with insight and innovation. A landmark book' - Toby Miller Professor of Cultural Studies and Cultural Policy, New York University

A collection of Hartley's writings on television which includes his views on TV as a global and local force and TV as a corporate and domestic, political and artistic object of study.

In an unconventional approach Hartley looks to popular media reality by examining how pictures and texts form powerful political forces. "The Politics of Pictures" is a history of looking from Aristotle to the meaning of picnics.

Television Truths considers what we know about TV, whether we love it or hate it, where TV is going, and whether viewers should bother going along for the ride.

Using the tools and techniques in this volume, it is possible for everyone with a TV set to analyse not only the programmes themselves, but also the culture which produces them. In this edition, John Hartley reflects on the development of television studies since publication of the first edition, and includes suggestions for further reading.

News depends for its effect on a culturally shared language, and this book concentrates on ways we can decode its messages without simply reproducing their underlying assumptions.

At the heart of this book lies a reappraisal of humanities research and its use in understanding the conditions of a consumer-led society

Originally published: St Lucia, Qld.: University of Queensland Press, 2009.