The Age of Television by Milly Buonanno

The Age of Television by Milly Buonanno

As television threatens to intrude upon our daily lives more than ever, The Age of Television takes a look at the impact of this media form on modern life. Buonanno analyzes how televised entertainment has altered human perception of place and time, multiplied opportunities for indirect social experience, and fueled the collective imagination.

“One of the most stimulating endorsements of Coronation Street and The Sopranos that anyone has ever writtenAnd good for Buonanno . . . for eschewing some of the grimmer accounts of the effects of ‘junk’ TV which many other commentators offer. Gleefully and consistently she rebuffs those who see the export of US TV shows as ‘cultural imperialism,’ by which Hollywood pumps out soul-destroying pap to numb the minds of idiot consumers.” 

-- Financial Times

“Some say that the age of television is over. If that is so, then the medium has found its ideal historian and critic in Milly Buonanno. I have read her work with pleasure over many years. It culminates with this book—a stunning tour de force. And if TV indeed has a future—as I firmly believe—then this tough-minded but subtly-expressed volume will be our best guide to what lies ahead, in addition to what went before.”

-- Toby Miller, Editor of Television & New Media

“In this elegantly written and highly original re-examination of television, its narrative forms and its key analytic texts, Milly Buonanno provides an exciting and philosophically sophisticated study of television in all its rich complexity. An astonishing and ground-breaking work."

-- Manuel Alvarado, University of Luton

“In this wide-ranging and always insightful book, Milly Buonanno takes us on a journey from the beginnings of television in 1936 to the present day, and indeed beyond to the digital future which awaits us all. En route she interrogates a number of theories which have traditionally dominated television analysis and offers an exhilarating counter-analysis to theories of cultural imperialism. A refreshingly open and searching approach to a medium in constant evolution.”

-- Hugh O'Donnell, Caledonian University

Milly Buonanno is a former professor of television studies in the Department of Communication and Social Research at Sapienza University of Rome. She is the founder and head of the Observatory of Italian TV Drama (1988–present), the co-chair of the research unit Ge.M.Ma. (Gender and Media Matters) (2010–present), an associate editor of the Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies and sits on the editorial board of several international journals. She has extensively researched and written on television theory and history, television drama and journalism, and has pioneered gender and media studies in Italy. Her recent book-length publications include: The Age of Television (Intellect, 2008), Italian TV Drama and Beyond (Intellect, 2012), The Sage Handbook of Television Studies co-edited with Manuel Alvarado, Herman Gray and Toby Miller (Sage, 2014) and the edited collections Il prisma dei generi (FrancoAngeli, 2014), Television Antiheroines (Intellect, 2017) and Genere e media: non solo immagini co-edited with Franca Faccioli (FrancoAngeli, 2020). Contact: Milly Buonanno, Department of Communication and Social Research, Sapienza University of Rome, Via Salaria 113, 00198 Rome, Italy.

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ISBN 13	9781841501819
ISBN 10	1841501816
Title	The Age of Television
Author	Milly Buonanno
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Intellect Books
Year published	2008-02-15
Number of pages	144
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