Armchair Nation An Intimate History of Britain in Front of the TV by Joe Moran. EPUB (Perseu)

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But what does your furniture point at?' asks the character Joey in the
sitcom Friends on hearing an acquaintance has no TV. It's a good question:
since its beginnings during WW2, television has assumed a central role in
our houses and our lives, just as satellite dishes and aerials have become
features of urban skylines. Television (or 'the idiot's lantern', depending
on your feelings about it) has created controversy, brought coronations and
World Cups into living rooms, allowed us access to 24hr news and media and
provided a thousand conversation starters. As shows come and go in popularity,
the history of television shows us how our society has changed.Armchair
Nation reveals the fascinating, lyrical and sometimes surprising history
of telly, from the first demonstration of television by John Logie Baird
(in Selfridges) to the fear and excitement that greeted its arrival in
households (some viewers worried it might control their thoughts), the
controversies of Mary Whitehouse's 'Clean Up TV' campaign and what JG
Ballard thought about Big Brother.Via trips down memory lane with Morecambe
and Wise, Richard Dimbleby, David Frost, Blue Peter and Coronation Street,
you can flick between fascinating nuggets from the strange side of TV: what
happened after a chimpanzee called 'Fred J. Muggs' interrupted American
footage of the Queen's wedding, and why aliens might be tuning in to The
Benny Hill Show.As Alfred Hitchcock said: 'The invention of television
can be compared to the introduction of indoor plumbing. Fundamentally
it brought no change in the public's habits. It simply eliminated the
necessity of leaving the house.

Armchair Nation An Intimate History of Britain in Front of the TV

By: Joe Moran
Format: EPUB
ISBN: 9781847654441
Language: EN
Pages: 968

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