| Description |
349 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-335) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: the hipness unto death. What's on TV. Massa, come home -- Getting dirty -- "Family Feud" -- Off the prigs -- Cosby knows best -- Virtu, Inc. -- A viewer's campaign diary, 1984 -- Sickness on TV -- Patriotism without tears -- "The air of expectancy was bursting at the seams" -- Black and white -- How TV covers war -- Rock music: a success story. Where all the flowers went -- King -- The promise of cinema. Live of the stars -- Tom Mix was a softie -- In memoriam -- A.J.H. -- Hitchcock's suspicions and Suspicion -- Overviews. Robot in the Western mind -- Big Brother is you, watching. |
| Summary |
Informed, controversial, ranging from a melancholy study of rock and roll's descent into show business to a hilarious look at the spectacle that is the Jerry Lewis Telethon, these twenty essays offer an unusual and (ironically) entertaining study of American media by one of its foremost critics. -- Publisher description. |
| Subject |
Mass media -- United States.
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Mass media. |
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United States. |
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Mass media.
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| Added Title |
Culture of TV |
| Other Form: |
Online version: Miller, Mark Crispin. Boxed in. Evanston, IL : Northwestern University Press, ©1988 (OCoLC)572717327 |
| ISBN |
0810107910 |
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9780810107915 |
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0810107929 (paperback) |
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9780810107922 (paperback) |
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