Northwestern University Press, 1988 Paper: 978-0-8101-0792-2 | Cloth: 978-0-8101-0791-5 Library of Congress Classification P92.U5M55 1988 Dewey Decimal Classification 302.2340973
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Informed, controversial, ranging from a melancholy study of rock and roll's descent into show business to a hilarious look at the spectacle that is the Jerry Lewis Telethon, these twenty essays offer an unusual and (ironically) entertaining study of American media by one of its foremost critics.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
MARK CRISPIN MILLER is the author of the best-selling books Cruel and Unusual: Bush/Cheney's New World Order, The Bush Dyslexicon, and Fooled Again: How the Right Stole the 2004 Election & Why They'll Steal the Next One Too. An expert in propaganda and media, he teaches at New York University.
REVIEWS
"These essays are the most valuable, original, powerful (and funny) any critic has produced in the history of American television. Boxed In is the benchmark work." —Todd Gitlin
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"Mark Miller is at his best (and this best is very good indeed) when he shows . . . how television obliterates distinctions, trivializes issues, and reduces everything to insignificance. His analysis of the flattening, reductive effect of television is original and highly instructive." —Christopher Lasch, author of The Culture of Narcissism
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
INTRODUCTION: The Hipness Unto Death
WHAT'S ON TV
Massa, Come Home
Getting Dirty
"Family Feud"
Off the Prigs
Cosby Knows Best
Virtù, Inc.
A Viewer's Campaign Diary, 1984
Sickness on TV
Patriotism Without Tears
"The air of expectancy was bursting at the seams"
Black and White
How TV Covers War
ROCK MUSIC: A SUCCESS STORY
Where All the Flowers Went
The King
THE PROMISE OF CINEMA
The Lives of the Stars
Tom Mix Was a Softie
In Memoriam—A.J.H.
Hitchock's Suspicions and Suspicion
OVERVIEWS
The Robot in the Western Mind
Big Brother Is You, Watching
Index
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Northwestern University Press, 1988 Paper: 978-0-8101-0792-2 Cloth: 978-0-8101-0791-5
Informed, controversial, ranging from a melancholy study of rock and roll's descent into show business to a hilarious look at the spectacle that is the Jerry Lewis Telethon, these twenty essays offer an unusual and (ironically) entertaining study of American media by one of its foremost critics.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
MARK CRISPIN MILLER is the author of the best-selling books Cruel and Unusual: Bush/Cheney's New World Order, The Bush Dyslexicon, and Fooled Again: How the Right Stole the 2004 Election & Why They'll Steal the Next One Too. An expert in propaganda and media, he teaches at New York University.
REVIEWS
"These essays are the most valuable, original, powerful (and funny) any critic has produced in the history of American television. Boxed In is the benchmark work." —Todd Gitlin
— -
"Mark Miller is at his best (and this best is very good indeed) when he shows . . . how television obliterates distinctions, trivializes issues, and reduces everything to insignificance. His analysis of the flattening, reductive effect of television is original and highly instructive." —Christopher Lasch, author of The Culture of Narcissism
— -
TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
INTRODUCTION: The Hipness Unto Death
WHAT'S ON TV
Massa, Come Home
Getting Dirty
"Family Feud"
Off the Prigs
Cosby Knows Best
Virtù, Inc.
A Viewer's Campaign Diary, 1984
Sickness on TV
Patriotism Without Tears
"The air of expectancy was bursting at the seams"
Black and White
How TV Covers War
ROCK MUSIC: A SUCCESS STORY
Where All the Flowers Went
The King
THE PROMISE OF CINEMA
The Lives of the Stars
Tom Mix Was a Softie
In Memoriam—A.J.H.
Hitchock's Suspicions and Suspicion
OVERVIEWS
The Robot in the Western Mind
Big Brother Is You, Watching
Index
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