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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Young, Rob, 1964-     Subjects     Television -- Great Britain -- History.     Television programs -- Great Britain -- History.     National characteristics, British, on television.     Great Britain -- On television.     Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 1945-     Browse Catalog     by author:      Young, Rob, 1964-       by title:      The magic box : view...       by call number:      791.450941 Y75m     Search the Web     Young, Rob, 1964-     Television -- Great Britain -- History.     Television programs -- Great Britain -- History.     National characteristics, British, on television.     Great Britain -- On television.     Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 1945-       MARC Display

The magic box : viewing Britain through the rectangular window / presented by Rob Young. by Young, Rob, 1964- Faber & Faber, 2021. Call #: 791.450941 Y75m Subjects Television -- Great Britain -- History.   Television programs -- Great Britain -- History.   National characteristics, British, on television.   Great Britain -- On television.   Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 1945- ISBN:  9780571284597 (hc) Description:  viii, 500 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references and index. Summary:  "Growing up in the 1970s, Rob Young's main storyteller was the wooden box with the glass window in the corner of the family living room, otherwise known as the TV set. Before the age of DVDs and Blu-ray discs, YouTube and commercial streaming services, watching television was a vastly different experience. You switched on, you sat back and you watched. There was no pause or fast-forward button. The cross-genre feast of moving pictures produced in Britain between the late 1950s and late 1980s -- from Quatermass and Tom Jones to The Wicker Man and Brideshead Revisited, from A Canterbury Tale and The Go-Between to Bagpuss and Children of the Stones, and from John Betjeman's travelogues to ghost stories at Christmas -- contributed to a national conversation and collective memory. British-made sci-fi, folk horror, period drama and televisual grand tours played out tensions between the past and the present, dramatised the fractures and injustices in society and acted as a portal for magical and ghostly visions. In The Magic Box, Rob Young takes us on a fascinating journey into this influential golden age of screen and discovers what it reveals about the nature and character of Britain, its uncategorisable people and buried histories - and how its presence can still be felt on screen in the twenty-first century. '[A] forensic dissection...this tightly packed treatise takes pains to illustrate how what we view affects how we view ourselves.' TOTAL FILM"--Publisher. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Sackville Public Library Adult Nonfiction 791.450941 Y75m Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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