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The Disappearance of Childhood

By Neil , Postman

Book information

Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Vintage Books
Year
2011
ISBN
9780307797223, 0307797228, 9781299041608, 1299041604
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (1936971 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
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Description

From the vogue for nubile models to the explosion in the juvenile crime rate, this modern classic of social history and media traces the precipitous decline of childhood in America today-and the corresponding threat to the notion of adulthood. Deftly marshaling a vast array of historical and demographic research, Neil Postman, author of Technopoly, suggests that childhood is a relatively recent invention, which came into being as the new medium of print imposed divisions between children and adults. But now these divisions are eroding under the barrage of television, which turns the adult secrets of sex and violence into poprular entertainment and pitches both news and advertising at the intellectual level of ten-year-olds. Informative, alarming, and aphorisitc, The Disappearance of Childhood is a triumph of history and prophecy.

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