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TV Professor or Dr. Susan Bordo (Professor Emeritus, University of Kentucky, USA)

TV By Professor or Dr. Susan Bordo (Professor Emeritus, University of Kentucky, USA)

TV by Professor or Dr. Susan Bordo (Professor Emeritus, University of Kentucky, USA)

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TV by Professor or Dr. Susan Bordo (Professor Emeritus, University of Kentucky, USA)

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Once upon a time, the news was only 15 minutes long and middle-class families huddled around a tiny black-and-white screen, TV dinners on their laps, awaiting weekly sitcoms that depicted an all-white world in which mom wore pearls and heels as she baked endless pies. If this seems a distant past, thats a measure of just how much TV has changedand changed us. Weaving together personal memoir, social and political history, and reflecting on key moments in the history of news broadcasting and prime time entertainment, Susan Bordo opens up the 75-year-old time-capsule that is TV and illustrates what a constant companion and dominant cultural force television has been, for good and for bad, in carrying us from the McCarthy hearings and The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet to Mad Men, Killing Eve, and the emergence of our first reality TV president. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

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Susan Bordo is old enough to remember when television was a thinga set, a box, an electric window on a made-up worldand she pays wise, charming, and personal tribute to its meaning for a generation and a culture raised in its blue light. And that's the way it was. * Jeff Jarvis, TV critic for People and TV Guide and founding editor of Entertainment Weekly *
In this lively and engaging analysis of what television has done for us and to us, the feminist cultural critic Susan Bordo takes us from Father Knows Best and Walter Cronkite to OJ, MadMen, Fox News, and much more. She shows how TV has shaped our politics and our purchases, our minds and our bodies, our definition of truth and our concept of reality. "We live in an empire of images," Bordo writesone could not wish for a more knowledgeable and entertaining guide. * Katha Pollitt, poet, essayist, and The Nation columnist. Her most recent book is Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights. *
Entertaining A thought provoking and interesting read. * Irish Tech News *

About Professor or Dr. Susan Bordo (Professor Emeritus, University of Kentucky, USA)

Susan Bordo is Professor Emerita at the University of Kentucky, USA, where she held the Otis A. Singletary Chair in Humanities. She has published many influential books, on subjects that range from femininity, masculinity, and the body (Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture and the Body and The Male Body: A New Look at Men in Public and in Private) to Anne Boleyn (The Creation of Anne Boleyn) and, most recently, The Destruction of Hillary Clinton, a play-by-play account of the gendered double-standards and stereotypes, political forces and media culture that contributed to Clinton's loss in the 2016 election (2017), and Imagine Bernie Sanders as a Woman and Other Writing on Politics and the Media 2016-2019 (2020.) Her widely cited books and articles are considered paradigms of accessible, interdisciplinary scholarship.

Table of Contents

Preface 1. Waiting for Joseph Welch 2. We Have Six Televisions 3. Growing Up with TV in the Fifties and Sixties 4. The Erosion of the Fact-Based Universe 5. If George Orwell Could Critique Broadcast News 6. Intersections of TV, Reality, and Reality 7. TV Deconstructs Gender 8. Epilogue: July 4, 2020 Acknowledgments Notes

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NGR9781501362521
9781501362521
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TV by Professor or Dr. Susan Bordo (Professor Emeritus, University of Kentucky, USA)
Professor or Dr. Susan Bordo (Professor Emeritus, University of Kentucky, USA)
Object Lessons
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
2021-03-11
192
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