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A riveting journey into the psyche of Britain through its golden age of television and film; a cross-genre feast of moving pictures, from classics to occult hidden gems,The Magic Box is the nation's visual self-portrait in technicolour detail. 'The definition of gripping. Truly, a trove of wyrd treasures.' BENJAMIN MYERS 'A lovingly researched history of British TV [that] recalls the brilliant, the bizarre and the unworldly.' GUARDIAN 'A reclamation, not just of a visual 'golden age', but of Britain as a darkly magical place.' THE SPECTATOR 'A feat of argument, description and affection.'FINANCIAL TIMES'Young unearths the ghosts of TV past - and Britain's dark psyche.'HERALD 'Highly entertaining . . . [A] fabulous treasure trove.'SCOTSMAN 'Young is a phenomonal scholar.'OBSERVER 'Impassioned.'THE CRITIC Growing up in the 1970s, Rob Young's main storyteller was the wooden box with the glass window in the corner of the family living room, otherwise known as the TV set. Before the age of DVDs and Blu-ray discs, YouTube and commercial streaming services, watching television was a vastly different experience. You switched on, you sat back and you watched. There was no pause or fast-forward button. The cross-genre feast of moving pictures produced in Britain between the late 1950s and late 1980s - fromQuatermassandTom Jones to The Wicker ManandBrideshead Revisited, fromA Canterbury Tale and The Go-Between toBagpussandChildren of the Stones, and from John Betjeman's travelogues to ghost stories at Christmas - contributed to a national conversation and collective memory. British-made sci-fi, folk horror, period drama and televisual grand tours played out tensions between the past and the present, dramatised the fractures and injustices in society and acted as a portal for magical and ghostly visions. InThe Magic Box, Rob Young takes us on a fascinating journey into this influential golden age of screen and discovers what it reveals about the nature and character of Britain, its uncategorisable people and buried histories - and how its presence can still be felt on screen in the twenty-first century. '[A] forensic dissection . . . this tightly packed treatise takes pains to illustrate how what we view affects how we view ourselves.' TOTAL FILM… (meer)
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I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind. Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
When the waterholes were dry, people sought to drink at the mirage. Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited
Sooner or later, everything turns into television. J.G. Ballard, The Day of Creation
Opdracht
Eerste woorden
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
The eyeless screen of dawn.
Citaten
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
Analogue TV screens bulged outwards with desire and potential. An LCD is a flat surface on which I project my own desire.
The Doctor – a shape-shifting folk hero in an age of space travel, quantum physics and imaginary numbers.
The American way of life, which had Britain in its pocket, changed society through its special relationship at least as much as a Nazi takeover could have done.
That's the question folk horror so often puts on the table: is there more to this than what I can see?
Nostalgia is the salve of the monetarist's conscience.
Laatste woorden
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
Until, with the dawn, the band strikes up, the clock appears on its sky of blue, the seconds pluck off like berries from the branch, and the spirits in the magic box blink awake.
A riveting journey into the psyche of Britain through its golden age of television and film; a cross-genre feast of moving pictures, from classics to occult hidden gems,The Magic Box is the nation's visual self-portrait in technicolour detail. 'The definition of gripping. Truly, a trove of wyrd treasures.' BENJAMIN MYERS 'A lovingly researched history of British TV [that] recalls the brilliant, the bizarre and the unworldly.' GUARDIAN 'A reclamation, not just of a visual 'golden age', but of Britain as a darkly magical place.' THE SPECTATOR 'A feat of argument, description and affection.'FINANCIAL TIMES'Young unearths the ghosts of TV past - and Britain's dark psyche.'HERALD 'Highly entertaining . . . [A] fabulous treasure trove.'SCOTSMAN 'Young is a phenomonal scholar.'OBSERVER 'Impassioned.'THE CRITIC Growing up in the 1970s, Rob Young's main storyteller was the wooden box with the glass window in the corner of the family living room, otherwise known as the TV set. Before the age of DVDs and Blu-ray discs, YouTube and commercial streaming services, watching television was a vastly different experience. You switched on, you sat back and you watched. There was no pause or fast-forward button. The cross-genre feast of moving pictures produced in Britain between the late 1950s and late 1980s - fromQuatermassandTom Jones to The Wicker ManandBrideshead Revisited, fromA Canterbury Tale and The Go-Between toBagpussandChildren of the Stones, and from John Betjeman's travelogues to ghost stories at Christmas - contributed to a national conversation and collective memory. British-made sci-fi, folk horror, period drama and televisual grand tours played out tensions between the past and the present, dramatised the fractures and injustices in society and acted as a portal for magical and ghostly visions. InThe Magic Box, Rob Young takes us on a fascinating journey into this influential golden age of screen and discovers what it reveals about the nature and character of Britain, its uncategorisable people and buried histories - and how its presence can still be felt on screen in the twenty-first century. '[A] forensic dissection . . . this tightly packed treatise takes pains to illustrate how what we view affects how we view ourselves.' TOTAL FILM
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