The joy of sets : a short history of the television
Horrocks, Chris2018
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It is a modern activity, one of the primary ways we consume information and entertainment, something we'll do over dinner, at a bar, or even standing on the street peering into a store window-watch TV. Many of us spend countless hours in front of the tube, and even those of us who have proudly eliminated it from our lives can probably still rattle off the names of today's most popular shows. But for as crucial as television viewing is in modern culture, the television set itself, as a ubiquitous object in our environment, rarely captures our attention-turn one off and it seems to all but disappear. In this book, Chris Horrocks tells the story of the television set, exploring its contradictory presence in our lives as both a material object and a conveyor of illusory images.
Main title:
The joy of sets : a short history of the television / Chris Horrocks.
Author:
Horrocks, Chris, author
Imprint:
London : Reaktion Books, 2018.
Collation:
224 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 22 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781780237589 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
384.5509621.3888621.388809
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
80573
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