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...And There Was Television

By Ellis Cashmore

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
1994
ISBN
0-415-09131-4, 9780415091312, 9780203421376, 0-415-09130-6, 0-203-42137-X, 0-203-72961-7, 9780415091305
LCC
PN1992.6 .C278 1994
Open Library ID
OL1423215M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1373464 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
231\231
Orientation
no
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

Television is blamed for an assortment of evils, including violence, shortened attention spans, the decline of literacy and political indoctrination. This study weighs up the theories and the evidence. The author argues that much of the panic is without foundation, and that the single most important danger posed by TV is that it encourages us to spend too much. Cashmore agrees with many writers that television is an elemental force in today's culture, but he presents a completely different account of how and why this has come about. He postulates that television is the central apparatus of consumer society and its success is measured not in terms of whether we enjoy programmes, but how much we spend as a result of watching them.

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