Smoke and Mirrors
Autor John Leonarden Limba Engleză Hardback – 31 ian 1997
In Smoke and Mirrors, John Leonard, one of the nation’s leading media critics, offers a provocative challenge to conventional ideas about television. Instead of scapegoating television as the cause of crime in our streets, stupidity in our schools, and spectacle rather than substance in our government, Leonard sees something else inside the box: an echo chamber and a feedback loop, a medium neither wholly innocent of, nor entirely responsible for, the frantic disorder it brings to our homes.
Taking on topics from kid shows to cable, from the cheap thrills of action adventures to the solemn boredom of pledge drives, Leonard argues for a whole new way of thinking about television.
Taking on topics from kid shows to cable, from the cheap thrills of action adventures to the solemn boredom of pledge drives, Leonard argues for a whole new way of thinking about television.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781565842267
ISBN-10: 156584226X
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 149 x 218 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.49 kg
Editura: New Press
Colecția The New Press
ISBN-10: 156584226X
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 149 x 218 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.49 kg
Editura: New Press
Colecția The New Press
Notă biografică
John Leonard (1939–2008) is the author of The Last Innocent White Man in America and Smoke and Mirrors (both published by The New Press). He was editor of the New York Times Book Review, literary co-editor of The Nation, and now appeared weekly on CBS Sunday Morning and in New York.
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Smoke and Mirrors is a passionate, richly nuanced work that shows television as a circus, a wishing well, and a cure for loneliness. Ranging from Ed Sullivan to cyberspace, from kid shows to cable, and from the cheap thrills of "action adventure" to the solemn boredom of PBS pledge week, Leonard argues for a whole new way of thinking about television. For Leonard, the situation comedy is a socializing agency, the talk show is a legitimating agency, the made-for-television movie is the last redoubt of social conscience, and television criticism itself is the last refuge of time-serving thugs and postmodernists. Instead of scapegoating television as the cause of crime in our streets, stupidity in our schools, and spectacle rather than substance in our government, Leonard sees something else inside the box: an echo chamber and a feedback loop, a medium neither wholly innocent of nor entirely responsible for the frantic disorder it brings into our homes.
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A passionate, richly nuanced work that shows television as a circus, a wishing well, and a cure for loneliness, "Smoke and Mirrors" argues for a whole new way of thinking about television, rather than scapegoating the medium as the cause of crime in the streets and stupidity in our schools.