Raymond Williams on Television (Routledge Revivals)

<p>First Published in 1989 this work is based around a monthly TV column which Raymond Williams wrote for <em>The Listener</em> between 1968 and 1972. Those were the years of the Prague Spring of anti-Vietnam war demonstrations of fighting in Cambodia and Northern Ireland of hope for McGovern in the United States and attacks on the Wilson Labour Government in Britain. In <em>The Listener</em> articles Williams comments on all of these events providing a rare glimpse not only into the events of his daily life but also into the continuing development of a personal sociology of culture. </p> <p>The articles also discuss such television forms as detective series science programmes and sports travelogue education gardening and children's programming. The book also includes Williams' key lecture Drama in a Dramatised Society which sets a framework for his analysis; a <em>London Review of Books</em> piece on the Falklands/Malvinas adventure as a tele-war; and an interview with Williams on television and teaching. </p> <p></p> <p>Cited by <em>The Guardian</em> as The foremost political thinker of his generation Williams' writing amounts to a primer on ways of watching television and of critiquing its profound social and political impact. </p>