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Television

Hardcover • 2016 • 1. edition

Television

By Peter Conrad

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About the book

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 confines of its box. Television's achievement is to have es...Show more

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ISBN

9781138207417

Publisher

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published year

2016

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1

Original title

Television

Format

Hardcover

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