Television: The Medium and its Manners

by Peter Conrad

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It dominates our lives. It is the twentieth-century medium. And yet we're all a little sheepish when it comes to television, disowning it by disavowal or by inventing subtle, innocuous disguises for it. Why is this? In this book, first published in 1982, Peter Conrad argues that our unease stems from the way that the medium works: it absorbs the messages it transmits, it invents a reality of its own and ends by luring the world into the...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:113820823X

ISBN13:9781138208230

Release Date:March 2018

Publisher:Routledge

Length:178 Pages

Weight:0.57 lbs.

Dimensions:0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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