#181 - Peter C. Rollins - The Columbia companion to American history on film


Author or Editor: Peter C. Rollins
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2003
Pages: 671
Size: 6.26MB


Film and television define our perceptions of our time and of historical experience. In 1973, John Harrington warned about the power of visual media to shape the contemporary sensibility, estimating that “by the time a person is fourteen, he will witness 18,000 murders on the screen. He will also see 350,000 commercials. By the time he is eighteen, he will stockpile nearly 17,000 hours of viewing experience and will watch at least twenty movies for every book he reads.

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