How to Be an Intellectual in the Age of TV - The Lessons of Gore Vidal

Informationen zum Autor Marcie Frank Klappentext "While other literary-minded writers of his generation (Updike, Bellow, Baldwin, Roth) barricaded themselves in bookchat, Gore Vidal took the full plunge into the new media age. There is no comparable figure to suture the two worlds, or two epochs."--Michael Warner, author of "Sex, Politics, and the Ethics of Queer Life" Zusammenfassung An analysis of how Gore Vidal! as a public intellectual! negotiates the print/screen media divide Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1. The Print Intellectual 17 2. The Screen Intellectual 41 3. A Fine Romance 69 4. Sexual Politics in the Print-Screen Circuit 91 5. TV: Another Erogenous Zone 111 Notes 143 Index 151

Product details

• Authors: Marcie Frank
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.10.2005
• EAN: 9780822336402
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3640-2
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Public Planet Books; Public Planet Books
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics