A passionate, richly nuanced work that shows television as a circus, a wishing well, and a cure for loneliness, "Smoke and Mirrors" argues for a whole new way of thinking about television, rather than scapegoating the medium as the cause of crime in the streets and stupidity in our schools.
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A passionate, richly nuanced work that shows television as a circus, a wishing well, and a cure for loneliness, "Smoke and Mirrors" argues for a whole new way of thinking about television, rather than scapegoating the medium as the cause of crime in the streets and stupidity in our schools.
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Collectible, Fine in Fine jacket. Book Octavo, hardcover, fine in fine gray pictorial dj. Author offers a provocative challenge to conventional ideas about television. Instead of scapegoating television as the cause of crime in our streets, stupidity in our schools, and spectacle rather than substance in our government, Leonard sees something else inside the box: an echo chamber and a feedback loop, a medium neither wholly innocent of, nor entirely responsible for, the frantic disorder it brings to our homes. 290 pp, .
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 8x5x1; The binding is tight, corners sharp. Text unmarked. The dust jacket shows some light handling, unclipped, in a mylar cover. 8vo. 290pp.
