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Electronic hearth : creating an American television culture / / Cecelia Tichi



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Autore: Tichi Cecelia <1942-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Electronic hearth : creating an American television culture / / Cecelia Tichi Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Oxford University Press, , 1992
©1991
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (262 p.)
Disciplina: 302.23/45
Soggetto topico: Television and families - United States
Television and children - United States
Television broadcasting - Social aspects - United States
Television - Psychological aspects
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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
Sommario/riassunto: 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 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
Titolo autorizzato: Electronic hearth  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-19-772390-X
1-280-52649-1
0-19-802301-4
0-19-535998-4
1-4294-0766-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910777500803321
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