Smoke and Mirrors
Smoke and Mirrors is a passionate, richly nuanced work that shows television as a circus, a wishing well, and a cure for loneliness. Ranging from Ed Sullivan to cyberspace, from kid shows to cable, and from the cheap thrills of action adventure to the solemn boredom of PBS pledge week, Leonard argues for a whole new way of thinking about television. For Leonard, the situation comedy is a socializing agency, the talk show is a legitimating agency, the made-for-television movie is the last redoubt of social conscience, and television criticism itself is the last refuge of time-serving thugs and postmodernists. Instead of scapegoating television…
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- ISBN: 978-1-56584-226-7
- EAN: 9781565842267
- Produktnummer: 9480267
- Verlag: New Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1997
- Seitenangabe: 304 S.
- Masse: H21.8 cm x B14.9 cm x D2.8 cm 490 g
- Gewicht: 490
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John Leonard (1939-2008) is the author of The Last Innocent White Man in America and Smoke and Mirrors (both published by The New Press). He was editor of the New York Times Book Review, literary co-editor of The Nation, and now appeared weekly on CBS Sunday Morning and in New York.
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