MacCallum, Mungo (Ed.), Ten Years of Television

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Ten Years of Television
Edited by Mungo MacCallum.

Sun Books, Melbourne, 1968.
First Edition paperback.

Cover illustration by Robert Rosetzky.

‘The prophets of gloom grew sleek on social change…a new Australian generation of myopic hunch-backed sponges, shovelling into oblivious mouths pre-cooked pap on tin-foil plates, soaking up second-hand and second-rate culture and rushing out to re-enact their favourite television dramas in unprecedented orgies of juvenile delinquency.’ Jean Battersby.

Ten Years of Television, edited by Mungo MacCallum is a provocative testing of the ‘the sticky monster’ television and its reshaping of Australian social, cultural and political life in the 1960s. Includes essays by Ken Davidson, Battersby, Kit Denton and Elizabeth Riddell. Puritanism, Battersby argues, is an inevitable byproduct of change. Worth comparing the moral panic about television with today’s hoo-ha around social media.

Condition: Minor page markings and spotting to edges but otherwise in very good condition.