{"product_id":"raymond-williams-on-television-routledge-revivals-selected-writings-9780415509206","title":"Raymond Williams on Television (Routledge Revivals): Selected Writings","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Raymond Williams\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Taylor \u0026amp; Francis Ltd\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Routledge\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Popular Culture\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst Published in 1989, this work is based around a monthly TV column which Raymond Williams wrote for \u003cem\u003eThe Listener\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eThe Listener\u003c\/em\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe 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 \u003cem\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e piece on the Falklands\/Malvinas adventure as a \"tele-war\"; and an interview with Williams on television and teaching. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCited by \u003cem\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/em\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46929775427735,"sku":"9780415509206","price":13281.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780415509206.webp?v=1771602162","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/raymond-williams-on-television-routledge-revivals-selected-writings-9780415509206","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}