Legendary television producer Norman Lear helped bring groundbreaking change to how Americans viewed the nation and themselves, says Walter Metz, a cinema professor in Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s School of Media Arts.
This week, the editors revisit writer-artist Constance DeJong’s “In Between the Dark and the Light,” a piece published in January 1981 on “Television/Society/Art,” a symposium held at the Kitchen in New York City the prior autumn. DeJong’s Reader (Primary Information), an anthology of eighteen texts including out-of-print and unpublished works, is in bookstores now.Before the internet, television was of course the messiah-bogeyman of consequence, promising liberation via the democratic dissemination of information as it reinforced mass psychology and mores. With the participation of cultural
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