1st Edition

Television The Medium and its Manners

By Peter Conrad Copyright 1982
178 Pages
by Routledge

178 Pages
by Routledge

178 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

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Biography

Peter Conrad