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- catalog abstract "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.".
- catalog contributor b10153745.
- catalog created "c1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "c1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
- catalog description "Introduction: why are we meeting like this? -- Ed Sullivan died for our sins -- Family values, like the house of Atreus -- Pulp Fiction -- Crime and punishment -- Social diseases -- A choice of elsewheres -- News from nowhere.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "290 p. :".
- catalog identifier "156584226X (cloth)".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "c1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : New Press : Distributed by Norton,".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "302.23/45/0973 20".
- catalog subject "PN1992.6 .L46 1997".
- catalog subject "Television broadcasting Social aspects United States.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: why are we meeting like this? -- Ed Sullivan died for our sins -- Family values, like the house of Atreus -- Pulp Fiction -- Crime and punishment -- Social diseases -- A choice of elsewheres -- News from nowhere.".
- catalog title "Smoke and mirrors : violence, television, and other American cultures / John Leonard.".
- catalog type "text".