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George W. S. Trow - Within the Context of No Context

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A highly original examination of contemporary American culture that developed a cult following when first published in the New Yorker in 1980. Trow considers and reflects upon the components of change in contemporary America--a culture increasingly determined by the shallow worlds of consumer products, daytime television, and celebrity-heroes--and reveals the historical trends that are transforming the texture of American life.
 

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To kill your TV or not to kill?

Date of Review:  Aug 27, 2000
Review: Challenging, unorthodox, cynical and hopeful, George W. S. Trow?s Within The Context of No-Context is a concise, amazingly brutal and sympathetic look at how television has changed American society.

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Authors George W. S. Trow
Nonfiction Category Biography & Autobiography • Social Science
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  Kramer, Jane: "George Trow is his own de Tocqueville, civilized and courtly, wandering the moral landscape of today's America, recording in perfect pitch its styles and pace and attitudes, its complicated rituals of pleasure and despair, reflecting on them with elegance and intelligence."

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  Format: Paperback
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Pr (March 01, 1997)
Measurements: 8.75"(h) x 5.5"(w) x 0.25"(d), 0.35 lbs.
ISBN: 9780871136749
 

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