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The premiere volume of the new Television Series by Syracuse University Press, David Marc's Bonfire of the Humanities advances and legitimizes scholarly attention to the impact of television on American culture-as did his earlier books, Demographic Vistas (1984) and Comic Visions.

The premiere volume of the new Television Series by Syracuse University Press, David Marc's Bonfire of the Humanities advances and legitimizes scholarly attention to the impact of television on American culture-as did his earlier books, Demographic Vistas (1984) and Comic Visions (1989). In this latest effort, Marc elucidates the depreciation of humanities-based liberal arts study in American universities, largely a consequence of television's challenge to traditional notions of literacy and memory.

The inaugural volume in The Television Series focuses on the relationship between the rise of the multi-media environment .

The inaugural volume in The Television Series focuses on the relationship between the rise of the multi-media environment - television and electronic media - and the decline of the humanities in academia, the changing role of print literacy, and the disintegration of historical consciousness. In analyzing the decline of the humanities on college campuses, Marc covers a wide range of issues, including political correctness, the growing tolerance of academic cheating, and institutionalized grade inflation.

of the Humanities : Television, Subliteracy, and Long-Term Memory Loss.

Bonfire of the Humanities : Television, Subliteracy, and Long-Term Memory Loss. This work focuses on the relationship between the rise of the multi-media environment - television and motion pictures - and the decline of the humanities in academia, the changing role of print literacy, and the disintegration of historical consciousness.

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Bonfire of the Humanities: Television, Subliteracy, and Long-term Memory .

Все результаты Поиска книг Google Об авторе (1990). About the Author: Mary Ann Watson writes and lectures on broadcast history. Her work has appeared in such publications as Film and History, Television Quarterly, The Journal of Popular Film and Television, and The Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media. She has taught at the University of Michigan and Eastern Michigan University, where she is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Theatre Arts.

Find nearly any book by David Marc. Get the best deal by comparing prices from over 100,000 booksellers. Comic Visions: Television Comedy and American Culture. ISBN 9781577180036 (978-1-57718-003-6) Softcover, Wiley-Blackwell, 1997.

Television, even television that appeals to the lowest common denominator, can still be great art . Titles already published include these: BONFIRE OF THE HUMANITIES: Television, Subliteracy and Long-Term Memory Loss. David Marc, with a foreword by Susan J. Douglas.

Television, even television that appeals to the lowest common denominator, can still be great art, Professor Thompson contends, a sort of visually enhanced form of literature. AND LUCY: How I Came to Create the Most Popular Sitcom of All Time. Jess Oppenheimer with Gregg Oppenheimer. LOU GRANT: The Making of TV's Top Newspaper Drama. Douglass K. Daniel, with a foreword by Ed Asner.

Bonfire of the humanities. television, subliteracy, and long-term memory loss. 1st ed. by David Marc. Published 1995 by Syracuse University Press in . Written in English.