The Crystal Bucket
Television Criticism from The Observer 1976-79
Clive James

Picador London 1982

stan dobry plus

str. 238

format 13 x 20 cm

waga 185 g

Książka w języku angielskim/The book is in English

First paragraph from the Introduction:
This book continues the story which I started to tell in Visions Before Midnight, a volume selected from my Observer television column between the years 1972 and 1976. In this second instalment I try to cover the years 1[zasłonięte]976-19, but once again the story is patchy. There is no hope of telling it all, or even of outlining all the reasons why this should be so. Enough to say that British televsion remains too various to be fully absorbed by one mind, even when that mind is well accustomed to being bombarded by patterns of light and sound for the better part of every day. All politico-sociological or sociologico-political surveys of British televsion can safely be dismissed as moonshine. In America there might be some chance of summing up what the networks crank out, but in Britain your chance to draw fully abreast of what the BBC has on offer is when ITV goes on strike, and vice versa. Far from being a conspiracy to manipulate the public, British television is an expanding labyrinth which Daedalus has long since forgotten he ever designed.