Table of Contents

Television - Familiarity and Phenomenology

Television - Hermeneutics and Horizon

Audiences - Constructions of Sense

Viewing and The Veridical Effect

Mechanisms of iIentification in Film and Television

Subverting the Veridical Image

Towards an "Epic" Television

Conclusion - Resisting Television's Familiarity

About the Author

Tony Wilson is Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics and Business, at University Malaysia Sarawak, and Associate Research Fellow, Global Cities Institute, at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.