Remotely: Travels in the Binge of TV 1st Edition David Thomson

Remotely: Travels in the Binge of TV – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780300261004,9780300274691,0300261004

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0300261004
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0300261004
• Author(s): David Thomson

The city at night under lockdown, a time of plague and anxiety. It is an exciting new age of television, the light that flutters in every cell in the city. But no one seems to be asking: What is the endless stream doing to us?

In Remotely, the most innovative writer on film and screens asks what happened to us as we sought consolation under lockdown by becoming a society of bingeing creatures. From Candid Camera and I Love Lucy to Ozark, Succession, and Chernobyl, David Thomson and his wife, Lucy Gray, wander through shows old and new, trying to pin down the nature and justification for what we call “entertainment.” Funny, mysterious, and warm, at last here is a book that grasps the extent to which television is not just a collection of particular shows—hits and misses—but a weather system in which we are lost pilgrims searching for answers.

Table contents:

1 The Switches
2 A Theory of Entertainment
3 What’s On?
4 Chernobyl and Chernobyl
5 Going Vegas
6 Inattention Must Be Paid
7 A Machine for Making Light
8 Paying for the Room
9 There Has to Be a Next
10 Patriot
11 A Winged Couch
12 At Random
13 Great Shows
14 Next Night
15 Larry All Alone
16 Where’s ——?
17 Something Wicked This Way Comes, Please
18 BREAKING
19 Where Is Carol Anne?
20 All Our Sad Detectives
21 In the Prison of Law & Order
22 The Night Of
23 The People on TV
24 You Are Not to Be Alarmed!
25 Previously on . . .
26 Our History, Our Game
27 The Watchers Watched
28 Our Sporting Life
29 On and Off
30 After Golden?
31 Old Men and Older
32 To Call This Fun
33 Not Quite Fine
Acknowledgments
Index

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