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Television: A Biography Hardcover - 2016

by David Thomson


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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. With Television, the critic and film historian who wrote what Sight and Sound's readers called "the most important film book of the last 50 years" has finally turned his unique powers of observation to the medium that has swallowed film whole.

Over twenty-two thematically organized chapters, Thomson brings his provocatively insightful and unique voice to the life of what was television. David Thomson surveying a Boschian landscape, illuminated by that singular glow--always "on"--and peopled by everyone from Donna Reed to Dennis Potter, will be the first complete history of the defining medium of our time.

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  • Title Television: A Biography
  • Author David Thomson
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Thames & Hudson
  • Date 2016-10
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9780500519165 / 0500519161
  • Weight 2.9 lbs (1.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 10.1 x 7.4 x 1.6 in (25.65 x 18.80 x 4.06 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Television broadcasting - United States -, Television broadcasting - Social aspects -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2016932145
  • Dewey Decimal Code 791.45

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  • Booklist, 12/01/2016, Page 9
  • Choice, 04/01/2017, Page 0
  • Kirkus Reviews, 09/01/2016, Page 0
  • Kirkus Reviews Fall Preview, 08/15/2016, Page 37
  • Library Journal, 08/01/2016, Page 92
  • Publishers Weekly, 07/04/2016, Page 0
  • Shelf Awareness, 11/08/2016, Page 0
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