Living-Room War

Living-Room War
Author: Michael J. Arlen
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1997-10-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780815604662

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"One doesn't have to be a panjandrum of Communications to realize that television does something to us," Michael Arlen (former TV critic of The New Yorker) writes in the Introduction to Living-Room War. He continues, "Television has a transforming effect on events. It has a transforming effect on the people who watch the transformed events-it's just hard to know what that is." Living-Room War is Arlen's valiant-and entertaining-attempt to figure out exactly what exactly television does to us. This timeless collection of essays provides a poetic look at 1960s television culture, ranging from the Vietnam war to Captain Kangaroo, from the 1968 Democratic convention to televised sports.


Living-Room War
Language: en
Pages: 260
Authors: Michael J. Arlen
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997-10-01 - Publisher: Syracuse University Press

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