| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xvii, 174 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
The television series |
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Television series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-158) and index. |
| Summary |
The inaugural volume in The Television Series focuses on the relationship between the rise of the multi-media environment - television and electronic media - and the decline of the humanities in academia, the changing role of print literacy, and the disintegration of historical consciousness. In analyzing the decline of the humanities on college campuses, Marc covers a wide range of issues, including political correctness, the growing tolerance of academic cheating, and institutionalized grade inflation. |
| Contents |
Chosen by television : a viewer in the city -- Literacy : love it or leave it -- Mass memory : the past in the age of television -- Culture without context -- The emergence of television criticism, 1920 to 1988 -- Eight meditations on couch potato stasis, social mobility, and the itsy-bitsy attention span thing -- Distribution is everything. |
| Subject |
Television broadcasting -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Television broadcasting -- United States -- Influence.
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Literacy -- United States.
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Popular culture -- United States.
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Television. |
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Sociology. |
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Education -- United States. |
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Reading. |
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Culture. |
| ISBN |
0815603215 (alk. paper) |
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9780815603214 (alk. paper) |
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