num_pages: 349
description: Informed, controversial, ranging from a melancholy study of rock and roll's descent into show business to a hilarious look at the spectacle that is the Jerry Lewis Telethon, these twenty essays offer an unusual and (ironically) entertaining study of American media by one of its foremost critics.
language: English
title: Boxed In: The Culture of TV
titlecomplete: Boxed In: The Culture of TV
genres: Essays, Nonfiction, Politics
ratings_count: 46
publisher: Northwestern University Press