Little Boxes 12 Writers on Television

Paperback (12 Oct 2017)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Building on Cat Is Art Spelled Wrong and Pretentiousness, Little Boxes expands CHP's investment in cultural criticism, this time inviting 12 writers to talk about TV, and what it means to be raised with television, not the internet, as the primary cultural background noise.

These essays are less "Why I Loved Parker Lewis Can't Lose" and more "What Is Up with Everyone in the 80s Having a Domestic: The Different Strokes/Gimme a Break/Mr. Belvedere/Charles in Charge Story."

The writers assembled come from a mix of genres, and work in very different modes, but for each one, TV is part of their cultural DNA, and the collection purposefully abrogates the space between the arts and pop culture, making an argument for how they seed and reflect each other.

There was something essentially lonely about watching television in the era before the internet-you did it alone, one episode at a time. The essays here represent, in some ways, the opportunity to binge watch and live tweet together-to turn viewing into a form of cultural production.

Book information

ISBN:	9781566894722
Publisher:	Coffee House Press
Imprint:	Coffee House Press
Pub date:	12 Oct 2017
DEWEY:	791.4509
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	208
Weight:	210g
Height:	229mm
Width:	152mm
Spine width:	13mm