by Raymond Williams
There is now a great deal of writing about television, of various kinds. This book is different from any of them, and its originality is important.
Most writing about television is in the form of newspaper reviews of particular “programmes”, as we call them. Yet actually what gets written about is not programmes but isolated shows, plays, presentations, discussions, documentaries. This follows from traditional newspaper reviews of books, plays and films. It can be useful if it is well done, and it has a certain interest however it is done, since television is one of the few interests we all now share in direct ways, and we obviously all want to talk about it or, for different reasons, to hear other people talking ...
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