'a good read ... offers and excellent opportunity to catch up on the central writings of one of the central writers in television studies today.' - Media Information Australia

• Part I Television theory 1 Tele-ology 2 Television and the power of dirt Part II Truth wars 3 Regimes of truth and the politics of reading: a blivit 4 Consciousness razing 5 Home help for populist politics: relational aspects of TV news Part III Paedocracy 6 Invisible fictions 7 The real world of audiences 8 Out of bounds 9 Regimes of pleasure: a fragment Part IV Photopoetics 10 The politics of photopoetry 11 Continuous pleasures in marginal places 12 A state of excitement Part V The art of television 13 Local television: from space to time 14 Quoting not science but sideboards (with Tom O’Regan) 15 Two cheers for paedocracy

'a good read ... offers and excellent opportunity to catch up on the central writings of one of the central writers in television studies today.' - Media Information Australia

• Part I Television theory 1 Tele-ology 2 Television and the power of dirt Part II Truth wars 3 Regimes of truth and the politics of reading: a blivit 4 Consciousness razing 5 Home help for populist politics: relational aspects of TV news Part III Paedocracy 6 Invisible fictions 7 The real world of audiences 8 Out of bounds 9 Regimes of pleasure: a fragment Part IV Photopoetics 10 The politics of photopoetry 11 Continuous pleasures in marginal places 12 A state of excitement Part V The art of television 13 Local television: from space to time 14 Quoting not science but sideboards (with Tom O’Regan) 15 Two cheers for paedocracy

'a good read ... offers and excellent opportunity to catch up on the central writings of one of the central writers in television studies today.' - Media Information Australia

• Part I Television theory 1 Tele-ology 2 Television and the power of dirt Part II Truth wars 3 Regimes of truth and the politics of reading: a blivit 4 Consciousness razing 5 Home help for populist politics: relational aspects of TV news Part III Paedocracy 6 Invisible fictions 7 The real world of audiences 8 Out of bounds 9 Regimes of pleasure: a fragment Part IV Photopoetics 10 The politics of photopoetry 11 Continuous pleasures in marginal places 12 A state of excitement Part V The art of television 13 Local television: from space to time 14 Quoting not science but sideboards (with Tom O’Regan) 15 Two cheers for paedocracy