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OverviewGrowing up in the 1970s, Rob Young's main storyteller was the wooden box with the glass window in the corner of the family living room, otherwise known as the TV set. Before the age of DVDs and Blu-ray discs, YouTube and commercial streaming services, watching television was a vastly different experience. You switched on, you sat back and you watched. There was no pause or fast-forward button. The cross-genre feast of moving pictures produced in Britain between the late 1950s and late 1980s - from Quatermass and Tom Jones to The Wicker Man and Brideshead Revisited, from A Canterbury Tale and The Go-Between to Bagpuss and Children of the Stones, and from John Betjeman's travelogues to ghost stories at Christmas - contributed to a national conversation and collective memory. British-made sci-fi, folk horror, period drama and televisual grand tours played out tensions between the past and the present, dramatised the fractures and injustices in society and acted as a portal for magical and ghostly visions. In The Magic Box, Rob Young takes us on a fascinating journey into this influential golden age of screen and discovers what it reveals about the nature and character of Britain, its uncategorisable people and buried histories - and how its presence can still be felt on screen in the twenty-first century. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Rob YoungPublisher: Faber & Faber Imprint: Faber & Faber Edition: Main Dimensions: Width: 12.90cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 19.80cm Weight: 0.432kg ISBN: 9780571284603ISBN 10: 0571284604 Pages: 528 Publication Date: 18 August 2022 Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationRob Young has worked at The Wire magazine since 1993, including five years as editor. He is the author of Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain's Visionary Music and All Gates Open: The Story of Can. He is the editor of Undercurrents: The Hidden Wiring of Modern Music and The Wire Primers: A Guide to Modern Music. His writing has appeared in Uncut, Guardian, Sight & Sound, Art Review and Frieze. He lives in Oslo with his family. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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