Television: A History In 100 Programmes - Phil Norman
Television: A History In 100 Programmes - Phil Norman An entertaining and illuminating celebration of televisual history by cultural historian Phil NormanFor decades, television occupied a unique…
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Television: A History In 100 Programmes - Phil Norman
An entertaining and illuminating celebration of televisual history by cultural historian Phil NormanFor decades, television occupied a unique position in the national imagination. Has the television lost its power in the internet age? By today’s standards the ‘box’ was tiny, but it dominated the living room in a way its technically superior descendants never quite manage.
This riotous mix, now slowly disappearing as themed channels and on-demand services take over, gave television a sense of community that no other media could compete with.The wonderful variety of programmes in the book includes overlooked gems and justly wiped follies, overcooked spectaculars and underfunded experiments – just as much a part of TV history as the national treasures and stone-cold classics. Cultural historian Phil Norman goes in search of such questions as he tells the history of TV through 100 ground-breaking programmes.He celebrates the joy of the TV schedule which, in the days of just a few channels, threw up dizzy juxtapositions on a daily basis: an earnest play might be followed by a variety spectacular; a horror anthology that drove children behind furniture followed a sketch show that chewed the carpet. A History of Television in 100 Programmes revels in the days when television was at the most exciting, creative stage of any medium: a cottage industry with the world at its feet.
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