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Series: Object Lessons
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Ideal for readers interested in media studies, cultural history, and the arts, as well as those curious about television's societal impact and evolution. Suitable for both scholars and general audiences fascinated by the intersection of politics, culture, and entertainment.
"Personal memoir meets television history in a look back at how TV has changed, and how it has also changed us, over the past seven decades"--
Personal memoir meets television history in a look back at how TV has changed, and how it has also changed us, over the past seven decades.
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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
Once upon a time, the news was only 15 minutes long and middle-class families huddled around a tiny black-and-white screen, TV dinners on their laps, awaiting weekly sitcoms that depicted an all-white world in which mum wore pearls and heels as she baked endless pies. If this seems a distant past, that’s a measure of just how much TV has changed—and changed us.
Weaving together personal memoir, social and political history, and reflecting on key moments in the history of news broadcasting and prime time entertainment, Susan Bordo opens up the 75-year-old time-capsule that is TV and illustrates what a constant companion and dominant cultural force television has been, for good and for bad. From the McCarthy hearings and The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet to Mad Men, Killing Eve, and the emergence of our first reality TV president, television has carried us through transformative times.
Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
Series: Object Lessons
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Critics praise Bordo's engaging and insightful tribute to television as a cultural force. Jeff Jarvis highlights her wise and charming reflection on TV's impact on generations, while Katha Pollitt praises the book as a knowledgeable and entertaining analysis of TV's role in shaping politics, truth, and reality. Irish Tech News describes the book as entertaining, thought-provoking, and interesting.
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ISBN: 9781501362521
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 11 March 2021
Country: United States
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 16.0mm
Width: 120.0mm
Height: 162.0mm
Weight: 180g
Pages: 192
About the Author
Susan Bordo is Professor Emerita at the University of Kentucky, USA, where she held the Otis A. Singletary Chair in Humanities. She has published many influential books, on subjects that range from femininity, masculinity, and the body (Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture and the Body and The Male Body: A New Look at Men in Public and in Private) to Anne Boleyn (The Creation of Anne Boleyn) and, most recently, The Destruction of Hillary Clinton, a play-by-play account of the gendered double-standards and stereotypes, political forces and media culture that contributed to Clinton's loss in the 2016 election (2017), and Imagine Bernie Sanders as a Woman and Other Writing on Politics and the Media 2016-2019 (2020.) Her widely cited books and articles are considered paradigms of accessible, interdisciplinary scholarship.
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