Watching Television: A Pantheon Guide to Popular Culture7 essays by leading media critics explore the politics and social implications of television. "...An important step into the past wasteland era of writing about the tube." - NYT Book Review |
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We Keep America on Top of the World | 9 |
SOAP OPERAS | 42 |
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