Technologies of Truth

by Miller, Toby

• ISBN13: 9780816629855
• ISBN10: 0816629854
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-02-01
• Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Summations
Introduction: Daguerrotropes and Such	p. 3
Sister Morpheme (Clark Kent - Superman's Boyfriend)	p. 37
Leavis to Beaver: Culture with Power, Culture as Policy	p. 64
Applications
A Short History of the Penis: ET's Rendezvous at HQ	p. 101
How Do You Turn Indooroopilly into Africa? Mission: Impossible, Second World Television, and the New International Division of Cultural Labor	p. 141
The Truth Is a Murky Path: Technologies of Citizenship and the Visible	p. 182
Historical Citizenship and the Fremantle Prison Follies: Frederick Wiseman Comes to Western Australia	p. 216
Conclusion: I Am the Morning DJ on WONK	p. 245
Bibliography	p. 269
Index	p. 297
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