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David Bianculli Teleliteracy
Touchstone 0671882384 / 9780671882389 PAPERBACK Very Good
0671882384 ISBN: 0671882384 Trade Paperback, 315 pages. VG. A Nice Copy!! Touchstone; Reprint edition (May 4, 1994). Entertainment, Television. Editorial Reviews: Amazon.com "It's time to realize TV must be doing something right to reach and affect so many people and that teleliteracy is something to be quantified and upgraded and utilized, not ignored," David Bianculli declares in his defense of teleliteracy--the widespread knowledge of television that ties Americans together in ways other media cannot. He acknowledges the faults of television -- sex and violence to a widespread audience -- but contends that TV has delivered positive role models, good storytelling and likable characters. Bianculli, a television critic for The New York Post and The Philadelphia Inquirer, offers an interesting defense of a much-maligned medium. From Publishers Weekly This conversationally written, zesty but hollow manifesto extolling the benefits of television is only likely to persuade the switched-on. Bianculli, TV critic for the New York Post and the Philadelphia Inquirer , concedes that "90% of television is . . . crap," but insists that "the best of television is very good indeed." Far from being a corrupter of literacy, the tube, he speciously argues, can make viewers more literate through programs like Sesame Street and adaptations of Dickens or Trollope that send viewers back to the novels. Dismissing links between TV violence and street violence as impossible to prove, he urges that classrooms teach children what TV can offer and praises the medium's coverage of the Gulf War. Drawing on interviews with Linda Ellerbee, Bill Cosby, Peter Jennings, Kurt Vonnegut, Shelley Duvall and others, Bianculli presents a rosy image of television as a growing, maturing medium, better now than in its golden age. A gimmicky "teleliteracy quiz" is included. Photos. Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. May ship from alternate location depending on your zip code and availability.
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