Seeing Things

Television in the Age of Uncertainty

By: John Ellis

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Hardcover | 31 December 1999 | Edition Number 1

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Television, the author argues, responds to two powerful desires of our age: it makes us witnesses of often traumatic events and it tries - and fails - to provide us with narratives that make sense of the world. The author makes sense of modern television, both by exploring its processes and in terms of its dynamic relationships with the cultures that provide it with raw material. Television, he proposes, offers us multiple ways of understanding the world, yet does not arbitrate between them. He explores this process as one of "working through", whereby television news takes in the chaos and conflict of the world and subsequent programmes of all kinds offer diverse ways of unravelling its confusions, from the psychobabble of talk shows to the open narratives of soaps, documentaries and dramas. By means of this working through, problems are exhausted rather than resolved. The author demonstrates how television's function in its new era is no longer that of building consensus; rather it uses all the means at its disposal, including sophisticated computer graphics, to mediate etween conflicting approaches to our age of uncertainty.

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Introduction
Witness: A New Way of Perceiving the World
Witness Through the Twentieth Century
The First Era of Television: Scarcity
The Second Era of Television: Availability
Working Through: Television in the Age of Uncertainty
Working Through and the Videographic
Working Through and the Genres of Television
Scheduling: Where Power Lies in Television
Channel 4: From Offer-driven to Demand-led Television
The Third Era of Television: Plenty
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