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Smoke and Mirrors

Violence, Television and Other American Cultures

Smoke and Mirrors( )
Author: Leonard, John
ISBN:978-1-56584-226-7
Publication Date:Apr 1997
Publisher:New Press, The
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $35.00
Book Description:

In Smoke and Mirrors, John Leonard, one of the nation's leading media critics, 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...
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Book Details
Pages:304
Detailed Subjects: Performing Arts / Television / General
Performing Arts / Television / History & Criticism
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):14.961 x 21.666 x 2.819 cm
Book Weight:0.497 Kilograms
Author Biography
Leonard, John (Author)
Critic John Leonard was born in Washington on February 25, 1939. He attended Harvard University from 1956 to 1958 and later studied briefly at the University of California, Berkeley. He wrote numerous books including Smoke and Mirrors: Violence, Television and Other American Cultures (1997) and When the Kissing Had to Stop: Cult Studs, Khmer Newts, Langley Spooks, Techno-Geeks, Video Drones, Author Gods, Serial Killers, Vampire Media, Alien Sperm-Suckers, Satanic Therapists, and Those of Us Who Hold a Left-Wing Grudge in the Post Toasties New World Hip-Hop (1999). His work also appeared in the New York Times, Harper's Magazine, The Nation, The New York Review of Books, The Atlantic Monthly, The Village Voice and The Washington Post Book World. He received the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Book Critics Circle in 2006. He died from complications of lung cancer on November 5, 2008 at the age of 69.

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