Living-Room War

by Michael J. Arlen

Book Overview

"One doesn't have to be a panjandrum of Communications to realize that television does something to us," Michael Arlen (former TV critic of The New Yorker) writes in the Introduction to Living-Room War. He continues, "Television has a transforming effect on events. It has a transforming effect on the people who watch the transformed events-it's just hard to know what that is."

Living-Room War is Arlen's valiant-and entertaining-attempt...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815604661
• ISBN13: 9780815604662
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Best Media Critique

This is the best critique of television I've ever read. Written in plain, concise language with acute observations of the things television does and what the results are. Everyone near or with an interest in the media should read this.