LEADER 00000cam a2200649Ii 4500 001 940361929 003 OCoLC 005 20170124030556.0 008 160219s2016 nyua b 001 0 eng d 010 2016932145 019 943645575|a961180297 020 9780500519165|q(hardcover) 020 0500519161|q(hardcover) 040 YDXCP|beng|erda|cYDXCP|dBTCTA|dBDX|dEGM|dOCLCO|dOCLCF |dOCLCO|dERASA|dJAI|dYDX|dCPL|dMR0|dRB0|dOU9|dNPC|dOCLCO |dFM0|dBUR|dUOK|dOCLCO|dIGA|dOCLCO|dZLM|dVP@|dCZA|dOCL |dCGL|dCHVBK|dOCL|dISM|dTXRHO|dCUY 043 n-us--- 050 4 PN1992.3.U5|bT475 2016 050 4 TK6637|b.T46 2016 082 04 791.450973|223 100 1 Thomson, David,|d1941-|eauthor. 245 10 Television :|ba biography /|cDavid Thomson. 264 1 New York, N.Y. :|bThames & Hudson,|c2016. 300 412 pages :|billustrations (some color) ;|c26 cm 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 500 Includes index. 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-398) and index. 505 0 Introduction: The elephant in the room? -- Part one: The medium. Buy the numbers ; Where are you going, fugitive? ; Norma's sessions ; Oh, Donna! ; Gently "on" : a new age of television people ; The sit and the situation ; Commercials ; Wasteland ; Is that an oasis? -- Part two: The messages. A play, for today? ; Talking heads ; Policeman, save my life ; The news, or Isn't there anyone? ; Women, wives, and wonderers ; The loneliness of the role model ; Mr. President ; Live? ; Documentary? ; Long form ; Laugh on/laugh off ; Eternally on. 506 Pacific Film Archive collection; non-circulating.|5CBPF. 520 8 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. 650 0 Television|zUnited States|xHistory. 650 0 Television programs|zUnited States|xHistory. 650 7 PERFORMING ARTS|xTelevision|xHistory & Criticism.|2bisacsh 650 7 Television.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01146535 650 7 Fernsehen|2gnd|0(DE-588)4016825-6 650 7 Fernsehempfänger|2gnd|0(DE-588)4132854-1 650 7 PERFORMING ARTS / Television / General. 650 7 PERFORMING ARTS / Television / History & Criticism. 651 7 United States.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01204155 655 7 History.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01411628 956 20170124 |bpfmcq|cCC 957 OCLC xref loaded 20171022 994 C0|bCUY