Author:
Thomson, David, 1941- author.
ImprintNew Haven : Yale University Press, [2024]
Imprint2024
Descriptionviii, 270 pages ; 24 cm
Note:Includes index.
Note:The switches -- A theory of entertainment -- What's on? -- Chernobyl and Chernobyl -- Going Vegas -- Inattention must be paid -- A machine for making light -- Paying for the room -- There has to be a next -- Patriot -- A winged couch -- At random -- Great shows -- Next night -- Larry all alone -- Where's ----? -- Something wicked this way comes, please -- BREAKING -- Where is Carol Anne? -- All our sad detectives -- In the prison of Law & Order -- The Night Of -- The people on TV -- You are not to be alarmed! -- Previously on... -- Our history, our game -- The watchers watched -- Our sporting life -- On and off -- After golden? -- Old men and older -- To call this fun -- Not quite fine.
Note:"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."-- Provided by publisher.
