{"product_id":"tv-9781501362521","title":"TV","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Susan Bordo\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Semiotics \u0026amp; Theory\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOnce upon a time, the news was only 15 minutes long and middle-class families huddled around a tiny black-and-white screen, TV dinners on their laps, awaiting weekly sitcoms that depicted an all-white world in which mom wore pearls and heels as she baked endless pies. If this seems a distant past, that's a measure of just how much TV has changed-and changed us. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWeaving together personal memoir, social and political history, and reflecting on key moments in the history of news broadcasting and prime time entertainment, Susan Bordo opens up the 75-year-old time-capsule that is TV and illustrates what a constant companion and dominant cultural force television has been, for good and for bad, in carrying us from the McCarthy hearings and \u003ci\u003eThe Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eMad Men\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eKilling Eve\u003c\/i\u003e, and the emergence of our first reality TV president. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eObject Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45088079184023,"sku":"9781501362521","price":490.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781501362521.webp?v=1767641290","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/tv-9781501362521","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}