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| View Larger Image | Watching Television: A Pantheon Guide to Popular Culture | Paperbackby Todd Gitlin (Author)
| List Price: | $13.00 | |
| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | Pantheon | | Edition: | 1st Edition | | Page Count: | 248 Pages | | Publication Date: | December 12, 1986 | | Sales Rank: | 1,148,729st |
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EDITORIAL REVIEWS |
Product Description
7 essays by leading media critics explore the politics and social implications of television. "...An important step into the past wasteland era of writing about the tube." - NYT Book Review |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 5.0 based on 2 reviews)
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Television Keeps Us Watching by James C. Arey (Louisiana)  5 Stars
May 31, 2000
If the characters on television sitcoms sat and watched television as much we the actual watchers actually do, then we would never watch. Confused? You won't be after a romp through "Watching Television". The references to individual shows are dated, yes. And the still burgeoning VCR and Cable/satellite industries are underrepresented. But this was life before the WWW. (And before the WWF, for that matter.) The elegant point these essays make is that television makes itself irresistable by showing us things that we are convinced we can't get anywhere else. The fallacies and truths of that argument are the basis for this book. A thourough and engaging read.
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Media Criticism on a readable and intelligent level. by Christopher Lehmann (Philadelphia, PA) 5 Stars
April 21, 2000
Watching Television, while getting a bit dated now, is a fascinating collection of essay about, yes, watching television. Looking at the effects of the MTV Generation, to populism in television news, to the effects of advertising, this book is a must read for anyone who is seriously interested in Media Studies.
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