Free Download Rob Young, "The Magic Box: Viewing Britain through the Rectangular Window"
English | ISBN: 0571284590 | 2021 | 512 pages | AZW | 4 MB
A riveting journey into the psyche of Britain through its golden age of television and film from the late 50s-late 80s. A cross-genre feast of moving pictures, from classics to occult hidden gems, The Magic Box is the nation's visual self-portrait in technicolour detail.
I found myself thinking more and more about how for the post-war generation, the television had replaced the village storyteller...
Growing up in the 1970s, Rob Young's main source of stories was the wooden box with the glass window in the corner of his grandparents' living room.
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 that were produced in Britain between the late 1950s and late 1980s - from
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