Demographic Vistas: Television in American Culture
"Quite simply, a tour de force—a wonderful synthesis of history and criticism."—Daniel Czitrom, author ofMedia and the American Mind"A cooly sophisticated analysis . . . of American televsion."—American Studies InternationalFrom reviews of the first edition—"Demographic Vistasanalyzes television in the tradition of a Gilbert Seldes or Michael Arlen. Exhibiting fluency in television history, theories of culture, and American literature, the book offers a thoughtful, idiosyncratic interpretation of television's life so far in American culture."—Critical Studies in Mass Communication"Marc does a good job of drawing links between the American literary tradition and television themes, which illustrate that television texts are not isolated from the critical mainstream of American creative efforts. . . . These links illustrate that television texts offer themselves to much the same analytical forms as any other literary endeavor."—Southern Speech Communication Journal