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Bezig met laden... The Glass Teat (1970)door Harlan Ellison
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Harlan Ellison had written successful TV Scripts and Magazine articles before doing this stint as a TV critic. Be prepared for the 1969-70 TV broadcast television series and ethos being slashed and burnt by a very severe critic and competent artist. For the social historian: this is what the demonstrators went home and watched. Rambling essays and rants on the evils of television. Some typically pithy Ellison wisecracking and occasional thoughtful discussion, but in general the tone is bad-tempered and negative. First published in 1969, and reissued with an introduction by Elllison in 1983, it feels very dated; this one has not aged particularly gracefully. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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The classic collection of criticism about television and American culture from the late, multi-award-winning legend. From 1968 through 1972, Harlan Ellison penned a series of weekly columns, sharing his uncompromising thoughts about contemporary television programming for the Los Angeles Free Press, a.k.a. "The Freep," a countercultural, underground newspaper. Sitcoms and variety shows, westerns and cop dramas, newscasts and commercials, Ellison left no pixilated stone unturned, expounding on the insipidness, hypocrisy, and malaise found in the glowing images projected into the faces of American audiences. The Glass Teat: Essays of Opinion on the Subject of Television collects fifty-two of Ellison's columns--including his 2011 introduction "Welcome to the Gulag," his unapologetic commentary about how cellphones and the internet have extended television's reach, eroding intelligence and freedom and creating a legion of bloodshot eyed zombies unable to communicate beyond their screens or think for themselves. Provocative and prescient, irreverent and insightful, Ellison's critical analyses of the glowing box that became the center of American life are even more relevant in the twenty-first century. Also available: The Other Glass Teat: Further Essays of Opinion on the Subject of Television Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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For those not familiar with his style, be warned that there is a lot of swearing and words that would these days be completely unacceptable, including derogatory ones about race, although the writer is not using them to be racist: quite the opposite. This volume shows a growing awareness also of the objectification of women, with criticism of a beauty pageant show about little girls, among other things.
An interesting feature for anyone interested in either the development of TV drama at that time, or Ellison's work in particular, is that he gives the complete script of an episode he wrote for a series about lawyers being made at the time, and as a follow-up his angry reflections on how it was hacked around and changed beyond recognition when actually made.
As with volume 1, The Glass Teat, some of the material in these columns is so of its time that it would have gone over my head even when I first read this as a teenager, as the TV shows or actors under discussion were long gone. However, there's enough of interest in Ellison's rancour, despair, occasional ray of hope that young people will be the saving of the USA, and the insight this collection gives about Americans of liberal views, despised as "intellectuals" at that period and probably also nowadays, to be worth a read. ( )