Programming Our Lives: Television and American Identity

by Walter Cummins

In this timely examination of television and American identity, Cummins and Gordon take readers on an informed walk through the changes that TV has already wrought-and those still likely to confront us.
Commercial television in America is less than 60 years old, yet it has had an enormous impact on what we like, what we do, what we know, and how we think. A family transplanted from the 1940s to the present day would certainly be stunned by a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275990206
• ISBN13: 9780275990206
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.6"