Television : a biography /
In just a few years, what used to be an immobile piece of living room furniture, which one had to sit in front of at appointed times in order to watch sponsored programming on a finite number of channels, morphed into a glowing cloud of screens with access to a near-endless supply of content availab...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Thames & Hudson,
2016.
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| Summary: | In just a few years, what used to be an immobile piece of living room furniture, which one had to sit in front of at appointed times in order to watch sponsored programming on a finite number of channels, morphed into a glowing cloud of screens with access to a near-endless supply of content available when and how viewers want it. With this phenomenon now a common cultural theme, a writer of David Thomson's stature delivering a critical history, or biography of the six-decade television era, will be a significant event which could not be more timely. Over twenty-two thematically organized chapters, Thomson brings provocatively insightful and unique to the life of what was television. |
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| Physical Description: | 412 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-398) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780500519165 0500519161 |