On Television

by Stuart Hood, Thalia Tabary-Peterssen

On Television has long been regarded as one of the best critiques of television ever published, offering a lucid, jargon-free and impressively concise analysis of every aspect of the television industry from the images on our screens to the organisations that produce (and manipulate) those images. it is an invaluable introduction to the world of television broadcasting as an integral part of the mass media which impinges so greatly on our lives.

Paperback

First published July 1, 1997

About the author

Stuart Clink Hood was a Scottish novelist, translator, a television producer and Controller of BBC Television.

Hood joined the Communist Party when he was a student at the University of Edinburgh and remained all his life a man of the left, later joining the Workers Revolutionary Party.