Title: The disappearance of childhood /
Authors: Postman, Neil.
Publisher: Delacorte Press,
Year: 1982
Subjects: Children.; Children and adults.; Mass media and children.; Television and children.
Abstract: Argues that the intrusion of television into every home introduces children too early to adult concepts and activities and subverts their ability to think abstractly, and the very concept of childhood is being destroyed.
Contents: The invention of childhood. When there were no children ; The printing press and the new adult ; The incunabula of childhood ; Childhood's journey -- The disappearance of childhood. The beginning of the end ; The total disclosure medium ; The adult-child -- The disappearing child ; Six questions.