Technologies of Truth: Cultural Citizenship and the Popular Media, Vol. 2
In a complex and media-saturated world, what is the value of truth? Author Toby Miller provides a pithy examination of how television, magazines, film, and museums influence the way our society conceptualizes such issues as citizenship, democracy, nationhood, globalization, truth, and fiction. With a style that is spicy, personal, and full of incident, Miller turns the ephemera of everyday life into an entertaining critique of our times. Illustrated.
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In a complex and media-saturated world, what is the value of truth? Author Toby Miller provides a pithy examination of how television, magazines, film, and museums influence the way our society conceptualizes such issues as citizenship, democracy, nationhood, globalization, truth, and fiction. With a style that is spicy, personal, and full of incident, Miller turns the ephemera of everyday life into an entertaining critique of our times. Illustrated.
AcknowledgmentsPt. ISummationsIntroduction: Daguerrotropes and Such31Sister Morpheme (Clark Kent - Superman's Boyfriend)372Leavis to Beaver: Culture with Power, Culture as Policy64Pt. IIApplications3A Short History of the Penis: ET's Rendezvous at HQ1014How Do You Turn Indooroopilly into Africa? Mission: Impossible, Second World Television, and the New International Division of Cultural Labor1415The Truth Is a Murky Path: Technologies of Citizenship and the Visible1826Historical Citizenship and the Fremantle Prison Follies: Frederick Wiseman Comes to Western Australia216Conclusion: I Am the Morning DJ on WONK245Bibliography269Index297
