In his bestseller of 1985, Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman claimed that the creative potential of a once culturally productive civilization is more and more diminishing, and in turn especially television represents the climax of an entertainment culture that renders people stupid. Contrary to such a claim, however, television proved to release multifarious creative energies. Ever since HBO's famous slogan "It's Not TV, It's HBO" launched in 1996, so-called quality television (Thomas ...
Event Location:
KunstQuartier, Bergstraße, Salzburg, Austria
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Event
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Sponsoring Organization(s) :
Department of English and American Studies, Salzburg University
Event date:
Thursday, July 5, 2012 to Friday, July 6, 2012
Abstract due date:
Thursday, May 23, 2013
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