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Tichi Cecelia <1942-> |
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Electronic hearth : creating an American television culture / / Cecelia Tichi |
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New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Oxford University Press, , 1992 |
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©1991 |
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0-19-772390-X |
1-280-52649-1 |
0-19-802301-4 |
0-19-535998-4 |
1-4294-0766-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (262 p.) |
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Television and families - United States |
Television and children - United States |
Television broadcasting - Social aspects - United States |
Television - Psychological aspects |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Contents; Television Environment-A Preface; 1. Introduction-Phasing In; 2. Electronic Hearth; 3. Peep Show, Private Sector; 4. Leisure, Labor, and the La-Z-Boy; 5. Drugs, Backtalk, and Teleconsciousness; 6. Certification-As Seen on TV; 7. Videoportraits and Authority; 8. Two Cultures and the Battle by the Books; 9. The Child-A Television Allegory; 10. Comics, Movies, Music, Stories, Art, TV-on-TV, Etc.; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W |
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We all talk about the ""tube"" or ""box,"" as if television were simply another appliance like the refrigerator or toaster oven. But Cecilia Tichi argues that TV is actually an environment--a pervasive screen-world that saturates almost every aspect of modern life. In Electronic Hearth, she looks at how that environment evolved, and how it, in turn, has shaped the American experience. Tichi explores almost fifty years of |
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writing about television--in novels, cartoons, journalism, advertising, and critical books and articles--to define the role of television in the American consciousness. She ex |
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