"And, of course, the explosive growth of television in the fifties was looking on with dismay. While its manufacturers, producers, and promoters saw it as a miracle that would placate bored housewives and keep families together, its detractors saw it as a further degradation of cultural standards. Television was yet another sign that the culture was being reduced to a featureless, homogenized mass." --Film, Form, and Culture by Robert Kolker
I'm lucky I had to look up the theory of Aura a few days ago; otherwise the nearest book would be a collection of Eugene O' Neill plays I've been using to prop up the portable fan.
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Date: 2007-06-27 11:36 pm (UTC)"And, of course, the explosive growth of television in the fifties was looking on with dismay. While its manufacturers, producers, and promoters saw it as a miracle that would placate bored housewives and keep families together, its detractors saw it as a further degradation of cultural standards. Television was yet another sign that the culture was being reduced to a featureless, homogenized mass."
--Film, Form, and Culture by Robert Kolker
I'm lucky I had to look up the theory of Aura a few days ago; otherwise the nearest book would be a collection of Eugene O' Neill plays I've been using to prop up the portable fan.