As television threatens to intrude upon our daily lives more than ever before, through cellular phones with broadcasting capabilities and thousands of new and previously unimaginable channels on digital TV, The Age of Television takes a careful look at the impact of this media form on modern life.Milly Buonanno analyzes the way in which televised entertainment has radically altered human perception of place and time, multiplied opportunities for indirect social experience, and fueled the collective imagination. Drawing on classic media theories but offering a fresh look at television's dominance of Western culture, this book provides an optimistic perspective on the possibilities of the small screen.�"One of the most stimulating endorsements of Coronation Street and The Sopranos that anyone has ever written. And good for Buonanno . . . for eschewing some of the grimmer accounts of the effects of junk' TV which many other commentators offer. Gleefully and consistently she rebuffs those who see the export of US TV shows ascultural imperialism,' by which Hollywood pumps out soul-destroying pap to numb the minds of idiot consumers."-Financial Times�"Some say that the age of television is over. If that is so, then the medium has found its ideal historian and critic in Milly Buonanno. I have read her work with pleasure over many years. It culminates with�this book-a stunnin