| 000 -LEADER |
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01509nam a2200169 a 4500 |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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| control field |
20150716093539.0 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
PINCKNEY COMM. SCHOOLS - 9/12 |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
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| LC control number |
96029421 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
156584226X |
| Terms of availability |
$19.55. |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Leonard, John. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Smoke and mirrors : |
| Remainder of title |
violence, television, and other American cultures / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
by John Leonard. |
| 260 0# - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
New York : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
New Press, |
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Distributed by Norton, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
c1997. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
290 p. ; |
| Dimensions |
22 cm. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
Smoke and Mirros is a passionate, richly nuanced work that show television as a circus, a wishing well, and a cure for loneliness. Ranging from Ed Sullivan to cyberspace, from kid shows to cable, and from the cheap thrills of "action adventure" to the solemn boredom of PBS pledge week, Leonard argues for a whole new way of thinking about television. For Leonard, the situation comedy is a socializing agency, the talk show is a legitimating agency, the made-for-television movie is the last redoubt of social conscience, and television criticism itself is the last refuge of time-serving thugs and postmodernists. Instead of scapegoating television as the cause of crime in our streets, stupidity in our schools, and spectacle rather that substance in our government, Leonard sees something else inside the box: an echo chamber and a feedback loop, a medium neither wholly innocent of nor entirely responsible for the frantic disorder it brings into our homes. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Television broadcasting |
| General subdivision |
Social aspects |
| Geographic subdivision |
United States. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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