Watching tv six decades of american television pdf

Television and Popular Culture. Other Editions 1. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Watching TV , please sign up. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Add this book to your favorite list ». Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Aug 04, Alex Taft is currently reading it. I recommend that you not read this entire book over the course of six weeks.

It will make your brain explode. Oct 22, Kris Riley rated it it was amazing. Love television history and Castleman does his homework Explains why that show lasted so long. Not for everybody but right up my alley.

Sep 22, Phair rated it liked it Shelves: non-fiction , pop-culture , hooray-for-hollywood. Interesting but a bit overwhelming. Both too detailed and not detailed enough. Many shows that I recall fondly were given only passing nods or left out completely. We tend to look back on TV's past Interesting but a bit overwhelming. We tend to look back on TV's past as the golden age with all sorts of great shows but when you break it down year by year you see that most years were filled with pretty lousy TV.

It's only when you compress time that the cream rises to the top of memory and it leaves that satisfying taste. If you ask me, TV today has a far greater proportion of excellent programming on at one time than most of the preceding 60 years.

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