Television and the Moral Imaginary

TIM DANT is a professor of Sociology at Lancaster University, UK, and has published books on material culture, critical theory and the sociology of knowledge. He is currently interested in phenomenological approaches to understanding culture and the moral turn in sociological theory.

• Introduction - the Small Screen and Morality Morality on Television Sociology and the Moral Order Televisuality: Style and the Small Screen The Phenomenology of Television Society and the Small Screen Mediating Morality Television and the Imaginary Conclusion Endnotes References Index

"Dant's Television and the Moral Imaginary represents a welcome contribution to television studies and serves as a bit of a palliative for the decades of television scholarship that would reduce the medium to the Rodney Dangerfield of media platforms. In fact, Dant's appreciable work represents what's good about emergent television scholarship in the digital age." - David Craig, International Journal of Communication (2013)