Memories of my father watching TV / a novel by Curtis White.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

White, Curtis, 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fathers and sons--Fiction.

Fathers and sons.

Television--Psychological aspects--Fiction.

Television.

Television--Psychological aspects.

Television broadcasting--Social aspects--Fiction.

Television broadcasting.

Television broadcasting--Social aspects.

Genre:

Fiction.

Domestic fiction.

Physical Description:

157 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Normal, IL : Dalkey Archive Press, 1998.

Summary:

Only in America, and only since the 1950s, has the watching of television become the communal ground, often the battle ground, of fathers and sons, as well as the place through which the rest of family experience is played out, fought out, remembered, misremembered, and made into myth and trauma -- the shows watched and loved, the shows that became the trigger for resentments, the shows that would be fought over, the box of shadowy caves that washed over mute bodies in the "TV room" (formerly known as the "living room"). In the background, as children fit or did not fit into the family mythology of good and bad TV, their budding imaginations recorded every hurt, near hurt, or imagined hurt which depressed, silent, nearly catatonic fathers could inflict upon them.

ISBN:

1564781895

OCLC:

38106150