Living-Room War
Download or Read eBook Living-Room War PDF written by Michael J. Arlen and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1997-10-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Michael J. Arlen |
| Publisher | : Syracuse University Press |
| Total Pages | : 260 |
| Release | : 1997-10-01 |
| ISBN-10 | : 0815604661 |
| ISBN-13 | : 9780815604662 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Living-Room War by : Michael J. Arlen
Book excerpt: "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.
