The view from Highway 1

essays on television

1st ed.

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The view from Highway 1

essays on television

1st ed.

In this classic collection of essays, Arlen misses nothing: He discusses how we watch the violence on TV news, unmoved, while eating breakfast and screaming at family members over trivialities; whether the television news communicates information responsibly; and how hidden values are imparted to children by Sesame Street while the program ostensibly teaches them the alphabet.

Publish Date
Language
English
Pages
293

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Edition Availability
Cover of: The view from Highway 1
The view from Highway 1: essays on television
1997, Syracuse University Press
in English - 1st Syracuse University Press ed.
Cover of: The view from Highway 1
The view from Highway 1: essays on television
1977, Ballantine Books
in English - 1st Ballantine Books ed.
Cover of: The view from Highway 1
The view from Highway 1: essays on television
1976, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
in English - 1st ed.

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Table of Contents

Good morning.
Spokespeople.
The interview.
The media dramas of Norman Lear.
The eyes and ears of the world.
The holiday dinner.
Snapshots from Operation Attleboro.
The cold, bright charms of immortality.
Icons of war.
Waiting for the storyteller.
The view from Highway 1.
Neutrality at the empty center.
The new season.
Pervasive Albion.
Time, memory, and news.
Kidvid.
A crack in the greasepaint.
Waltz-time and the public interest.
White man still speaks with forked tongue.
Three views of women.
Blood marks in the sylvan glade.

Edition Notes

"All the essays ... appeared originally in The New Yorker, some in slightly different form, between September 1974 and December 1975."

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New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
791.45/0973
Library of Congress
PN1992.3.U5 A93

The Physical Object

Pagination
293 p. ;
Number of pages
293

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL4892235M
Internet Archive
viewfromhighway10000unse
ISBN 10
0374283710
LCCN
76024900
OCLC/WorldCat
2332377
Library Thing
2979598
Goodreads
5353568

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