Living Room War,9780815604662

Living Room War

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ISBN13: 9780815604662
ISBN10: 0815604661
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1997-01-01
Publisher(s): Syracuse Univ Pr
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Summary

Living-Room War is Arlen's valiant - and entertaining - attempt to figure out exactly what television does to us. This timeless collection of essays provides a poetic look at 1960s television culture, ranging from the Vietnam war to Captain Kangaroo, from the 1968 Democratic convention to televised sports.

Table of Contents

Introduction vii
At Least
3(3)
Living-Room War
6(4)
Some Problems
10(4)
The National Broadcasting Company Views the Manila Conference & Finds It Pleasing
14(3)
Peter Hackes Tells Us About the Hand-Over-Hand Restraining System & Other Stories
17(5)
Morley Safer Loses His Breath but Finds His Voice: A Moral Tale
22(4)
Main Currents of American Thought (Cont.)
26(4)
I've Got Those Mad about Them, Sad about Them, Edu-cay-shunal Television Blues
30(5)
Perspectives
35(5)
The Networks Continue to Give Us What We Really Want. We Are Immeasurably Grateful & Utter Little Cries of Help
40(5)
The Bombs Below Go Pop-Pop-Pop
45(6)
Thumbprints
51(4)
Marshall McLuhan & the Technological Embrace
55(6)
Morley Safer's Vietnam
61(5)
The Bodiless Tackle, the Second-Hand Thud
66(6)
The Telly
72(8)
Television's War
80(6)
A Day in the Life
86(17)
Television and the Press in Vietnam; or, Yes, I Can Hear You Very Well--Just What Was It You Were Saying?
103(20)
The Ten Most Shows
123(6)
PBL
129(6)
President Johnson Models the New Microphone, the Governor of Michigan Brandishes an Issue, the Ship of State Sails On, & Other Melodies of the Nineteen-Sixties
135(7)
Propaganda
142(7)
Something Live
149(5)
A Whole Lot of Fun
154(6)
Watchman, What of the Night? ... or, God Bless Our Public Interest: Further Fables for Our Time
160(8)
An Illustrated History of the War
168(6)
Positive, Negative
174(6)
Sunday
180(10)
How Do You Feel?
190(6)
McCarthy in Wisconsin
196(6)
Life and Death in the Global Village
202(5)
Kennedy in California
207(16)
Griefspeak
223(4)
Moon over Miami
227(10)
A Wednesday Evening in Chicago
237

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