Event TV : the production and inhabited resistance of images of control

Exploring a selection of television images from the 1920s to the present day, including Graham Kennedy, Norman Gunston, Roy and H.G. and Kath and Kim, Event TV examines an intersection between some Australian television comedy and the work of certain poststructuralist thinkers, highlighting a connection between televisual liveness and the technology's articulation of operations of control. The book discusses the potential for televisual liveness to produce and accommodate particular resistive capacities as part of the operation of control through developing the concept of 'inhabited resistance'. In doing so, Event TV examines television's role in contemporary culture through its operations of control, together with its potential mobilisation of a politics of resistance.