Smoke and Mirrors Hardcover - 1997
by John Leonard
A passionate, richly nuanced work that shows television as a circus, a wishing well, and a cure for loneliness, "Smoke and Mirrors" argues for a whole new way of thinking about television, rather than scapegoating the medium as the cause of crime in the streets and stupidity in our schools.
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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 as the cause of crime in our streets, stupidity in our schools, and spectacle rather than substance in our government, Leonard sees something else inside the box: an echo chamber and a feedback loop, a medium neither wholly innocent of nor entirely responsible for the frantic disorder it brings into our homes.
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- Title Smoke and Mirrors
- Author John Leonard
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 304
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher New Press, NY
- Date 1997-02
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9781565842267 / 156584226X
- Weight 1.08 lbs (0.49 kg)
- Dimensions 8.58 x 5.87 x 1.09 in (21.79 x 14.91 x 2.77 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Television broadcasting - Social aspects -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 94041459
- Dewey Decimal Code 302.234
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Citations
- Booklist, 02/01/1997, Page 912
- Kirkus Reviews, 01/01/1997, Page 42
- New York Times, 03/02/1997, Page 7
- Publishers Weekly, 01/06/1997, Page 54
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