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100			_aLeonard, John.
245	1	0	_aSmoke and mirrors : _bviolence, television, and other American cultures / _cby John Leonard.
260	0		_aNew York : _bNew Press, _bDistributed by Norton, _cc1997.
300			_a290 p. ; _c22 cm.
520			_aSmoke 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			_aTelevision broadcasting _xSocial aspects _zUnited States.
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